Barbra Streisand

Released: October 9, 1984

Songwriter: Barbra Streisand John Mellencamp

Producer: Albhy Galuten

You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me
You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me!

We blow hot and cold right into
A heartache
I come toward you and you back away
Well, it's hard to be open, but do it for our sake
Don't let the world get in out way

You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me
You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me!

Our lives are filled with such indecision
Going and comin' in our different ways
Don't run away don't avoid the collision
Let the sparks fill up our days
It's a step in the right direction

You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me
You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me!

Now listen baby, I'm sure glad you came along
But don't push your luck honey
'Cause our love is not that strong

May not be love and it may not be perfect
It may not make our dreams come true
But what good are dreams
Can't put your arms around them
Let me put my arms around you

You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me
You are a step in the right direction
You are a step forward for me
'Cause I am a step in the right direction
I am a step forward for you
I am a step in the right direction
Come on and take a step or two
Cause you are a step in the right direction...

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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