Barbra Streisand

Released: June 29, 1993

Songwriter: Kurt Weill Ogden Nash

Producer: David Foster

Speak Low
When you speak love
Our summer day withers away
Too soon, too soon

Speak Low
When you speak love
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift
Westward depart, too soon

Speak Low
Darling, Speak Low
Love is a spark, lost in the dark
Too soon, too soon

I feel wherever I go
That tomorrow is near
Tomorrow is hear
And always too soon

Time is so old
And love so brief
Love is pure gold
And time of beef

We're late, darling
We're late
The curtain descends, everything ends
Too soon, too soon

I wait, darling
I wait
Will you speak low to me, speak love to me
And soon

I wait, darling
I wait
Will you speak low to me, slow to me
Oh please just don't say no to me
Let it flow to me, slow to me, soon

Barbra Streisand is an Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Broadway legend, film star, movie director and one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time - a staggering amount of accomplishments for someone whose mother insisted she not to go into show business.

By the time she was sixteen, she’d graduated high school and was living on her own in Manhattan. After winning a talent contest at a gay bar on West 9th Street, Streisand’s ‘spellbinding’ voice quickly became popular at New York clubs and in Broadway shows. After appearances on a number of popular television shows including The Tonight Show, Streisand signed with Columbia Records and released several top 10 albums in the 1960s, scoring two US top 40 hits with “People” and “Second Hand Rose”.

Her success as a recording artist continued through the 1970s with several more gold/platinum-certified albums and four US “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “No More Tears”, the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were”, and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”. The 1980s would begin with Streisand’s biggest-selling release of her career Guilty, a collaborative effort with BeeGees member Barry Gibb. It topped the albums chart in several countries and as did its lead single “Woman In Love”.

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