Barbra Streisand

Released: October 9, 1984

Songwriter: Kathy Wakefield Michel Colombier Richard Baskin

Producer: Maurice White

When I dream
In a world that has no time
In a world that pays no mind
To a heart such as mine
I can be
Out along the stars somewhere
All alone without a care
I can be anything
When I dream

By myself
All I want to do is find what it's all about
I'm reaching out
Knowing that there must be more
I imagine when I dream what I've never known
Or felt before

(When I dream)
I can turn reality
Into anything I see
All at once I am free
I can be
In the sky or on the ground
Of the Earth but not earthbound
I can be anything
When I dream

Thinking back it seems I've spent my life
Sacrificing what I felt inside
Never thought I could have in my life
The dreams I have denied

When I dream
I believe there's someone there
Someone else with dreams to share
Someone willing to care
He could be
Out among the stars somewhere
Someone gentle, someone fair
He could be anything
When I dream

When I dream
There's no possibility
That I can't begin to see
There's no voice telling me
Not to be
Out among the stars somewhere
Feeling free, I'm free to dare
And to be anything
When I dream
Far beyond the fantasy
And the harsh reality
Suddenly, I can see
We could be
Out among the stars somewhere
All alone without a care
We could be anything
When I dream
Oooooooooohh
Dreamin'...dreamin'....dreamin'
Ooh c'mon and dream

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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