Barbra Streisand

Songwriter: Antônio Carlos Jobim Marshall Barer

Producer: Jack Gold

I'm all alone in a place I have never been
I see a door to a garden and wander in
And though my journey has barely begun
I am spun like a top to the top of the universe and
High in a spiral of ice I gaze upon a scene
That flickers far below me
And what I see is a crinkle of colors and sounds
Colors and sounds

I can hear tinkles of crystal
And I can see sparkles of mist on the spangles
And I can feel tangles of tingles and sprinklings of angles
And inklings of angels around

A rabbit crosses my path unexpectedly
I hear a sigh of despair as he passes me
I have a feeling that rabbit is late
For wherever he's going whatever he's headed for is my destination
Oh, show me the way to stay here in this world
Because here's where the right things happen
Oh baby here's where the good things are

Looking at this enormous butterfly
Wondering if he cares to dance with me
Delicate as a flower carved of chrysophrase
Idly i ponder how far have I yet to find it
I've got to find it and act as though i've lost it
Otherwise i'm lost in wonderland

I've got to find it or else I am bound
To the empty ground bleak and vast
Where dark spells are cast

Flooring above me and ceiling below me
And chandeliers rising like tremulous towers
And tables and chairs and beds hanging like blossoms
In turquoise and purple and green

You were asleep so I guess you were not aware
I took a walk through your mind and I lingered there
But what I found I can never reveal to you
Not with my words nor the pitch of my flute recall it
You'll simply have to come walking with me
One day into that wonderland shining behind your eyes
Beyond the gossamer doors of sleep
Lovely, lovely sleep

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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