Barbra Streisand

Featuring: Lionel Richie

Songwriter: Alan Bergman Marilyn Bergman Marvin Hamlisch

Producer: Babyface Walter Afanasieff

[Verse 1: Barbra Streisand & Lionel Richie]
Memories
Light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
[Barbra Streisand]
Scattered pictures
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were

[Hook: Barbra Streisand & Lionel Richie]
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we?
Could we?

[Verse 2: Barbra Streisand & Lionel Richie]
[Lionel Richie]
Memories (May be beautiful and yet)
So many memories too painful to remember
The way we were (The way, the way, the way, the way)

[Hook: Barbra Streisand & Lionel Richie]

[Verse 3: Barbra Streisand & Lionel Richie]
Memories may be beautiful and yet (May be beautiful and yet)
So many memories too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter
That we will remember
Whenever we remember

[Outro: Barbra Streisand & Lionel Richie]
The way, the way we were (The way, the way)
The way we were (I miss you baby)
The way we were (Oh I miss you so much baby)
I miss the way we were
The way we were

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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