Barbra Streisand

Released: June 29, 1993

Featuring: Michael Crawford

Songwriter: Andrew Lloyd Webber Charles Hart Richard Stilgoe

Producer: David Foster

Nighttime sharpens
Heightens each sensation...
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Helpless to resist the notes I write
For I composed the music of the night!

Slowly, gently
Night unfurls its splendor
Grasp it, sense it tremulous and tender

Hearing is believing, music is deceiving
Hard as lightning, soft as candle light

There you trust the music of the night...

Close your eyes
For your eyes will only tell the truth

And the truth isn't what you want to see
In the dark it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be...

Softly

Deafening

Music shall caress you

Hear it

Feel it

Secretly posses you...
Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind
In this darkness which you know you cannot fight
The darkness of the music of the night...

Close your eyes start a journey through a strange new world
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before!
Close your eyes and let music set you free!

Only then can you belong to me...

Floating (floating), falling (falling)
Sweet intoxication!
Touch me (touch me), trust me (trust me)
Savour each sensation!

Let the dream begin
Let your darker side give in
To the power of the music that I write
The power of the music of the night!

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah...
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah...
Ah-ah-ah...
Aaaaaaaaaah...oooh...

You alone can make my song take flight
Help me make the music of the night...

Help me make the music of the night...

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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From the albums

Back to Broadway (1993)
Duets (2002)

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