Barbra Streisand

Songwriter: Alan Bergman Brian Byrne Marilyn Bergman

Producer: Barbra Streisand

Why was there no applause?
It was our best performance
All in our thought last night
Went quite well

We knew all of our lines
And we knew how to say them
Just how to play them
Keeping it light till the tears fell

Though we both knew our story was ending
We were surprised when it came
Some things are just too good to be true
And no one's to blame

So there was no applause
When we brought down the curtain
We were so certain
There wasn't anything left to say

Maybe somehow our hearts knew
What our eyes couldn't see
Love would wait for us someday, someway
If it's meant to be...

(Instrumental interlude)

So there was no applause
Though there were tears and laughter
Then moments after we left the stage
And we closed the play

Maybe somehow our hearts knew
What our eyes couldn't see
Love would wait for us someday, someway
If it's meant to be...

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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