Barbra Streisand

Released: November 11, 1997

Songwriter: Alan Bergman Marilyn Bergman Marvin Hamlisch

Producer: Barbra Streisand Jeremy Lubbock

Once upon a time
I was afraid
Of letting go
Letting someone in
My feelings stayed
Behind a door that had no key
Leading with my heart
Never was for me

Living in my mind
Running away
'Til someone's arms
Caught me by surprise
I never knew
The power of love
But I suppose
Deep in every heart
There's a part that knows

Listen to it's voice
For it whispers
What your dreams are made of
So why be afraid of
What you know is true?

Every day you learn

Leading with your heart can lift you higher
Where your heart's desire
Will be waiting for you

Follow what you feel
Feelings are wise
Believe your heart
As you believe your eyes
And like a child
Who's wandered off and lost its way
You can find a place
Where your soul believes
That you're home to stay

Follow what you feel
Anywhere it goes
Believe your heart
Trusting that it knows
As the dark of night
Will always find the light of day
List'ning with your heart
You will hear it say:
"Leading with your heart
You will find your way."

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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