Barbra Streisand

Released: July 1, 2021

Songwriter: John Bettis Walter Afanasieff

Producer: Barbra Streisand Walter Afanasieff

[Verse 1]
4 AM, another sleepless night
Each weary word I write, a tear on the page
Here I am, asking myself again
Why does this love we're in stay just out of reach?

[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me why we never get the balance
Just exactly right, we scream across the distance
From our separate sides
And wonder, when did passion turn to pride?

[Chorus]
You and I
Two lives, one heart
Believing every day
Will be thе day when sweet forgiveness starts

[Verse 2]
I need you to lеt me stand alone
To call my life my own, yet stand by my side
I know I don't let you know enough
Don't let love show enough, don't let you be strong

[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, tell me why we never get surrender
Just exactly right, we never can remember
There's another side
That lies between the passion and the pride

[Chorus]
You and I
Two lives, one heart
One leap of faith away
We stay until the sweet forgiveness starts

Walls, we built these very walls
Where my shadow falls alone
And doors, between my life and yours
Open them before everything is gone
Sweet forgiveness, touch me before dawn

[Outro]
You and I
Two lives, one heart
We keep the dream alive
Surviving till the sweet forgiveness starts

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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