Released: November 5, 1985
Songwriter: Björn Ulvaeus Benny Andersson Tim Rice
Nothing is so good it lasts eternally
Perfect situations must go wrong
But this has never yet prevented me
Wanting far too much for far too long
Looking back I could have played it differently
One of few more moments who can tell
But it took time to understand the man
Now at least I know I know him well
Wasn't it good? Oh so good
Wasn't he fine? Oh so fine
Isn't it madness he can't be mine?
But in the end he needs
A little bit more than me
More she needs security
He needs his fantasy and freedom
I know him so well
No one in your life is with you constantly
No one is completely on your side
And though I move my world to be with him
Still the gap between us is too wide
Looking back I could have played it differently
Could have played things some other way
Learn about the man before I fell
I was just a little careless
But I was ever so much younger then
I was so much younger then
Now at least I know I know him well
Wasn't it good? Oh so good
Wasn't he fine? Oh so fine
Isn't it madness he won't be mine?
Didn't I know how it would go?
If I knew from the start
Why am I falling apart?
Wasn't he fine? Isn't it madness
He won't be mine?
But in the end he needs a little bit more than me
More she needs security
He needs his Fantasy and freedom
I know him so well
It took time to understand me
I know him so well
Perfect situations must go wrong
But this has never yet prevented me
Wanting far too much for far too long
Looking back I could have played it differently
One of few more moments who can tell
But it took time to understand the man
Now at least I know I know him well
Wasn't it good? Oh so good
Wasn't he fine? Oh so fine
Isn't it madness he can't be mine?
But in the end he needs
A little bit more than me
More she needs security
He needs his fantasy and freedom
I know him so well
No one in your life is with you constantly
No one is completely on your side
And though I move my world to be with him
Still the gap between us is too wide
Looking back I could have played it differently
Could have played things some other way
Learn about the man before I fell
I was just a little careless
But I was ever so much younger then
I was so much younger then
Now at least I know I know him well
Wasn't it good? Oh so good
Wasn't he fine? Oh so fine
Isn't it madness he won't be mine?
Didn't I know how it would go?
If I knew from the start
Why am I falling apart?
Wasn't he fine? Isn't it madness
He won't be mine?
But in the end he needs a little bit more than me
More she needs security
He needs his Fantasy and freedom
I know him so well
It took time to understand me
I know him so well
more tracks from the album
The Broadway Album
- Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man
- Not While I’m Around
- I Loves You Porgy/Porgy Is Your Woman Now (Bess, You Is My Woman)
- Adelaide’s Lament
- Putting It Together
- Pretty Women/The Ladies Who Lunch
- Being Alive
- Something’s Coming
- I Have Dreamed/We Kiss in a Shadow/Something Wonderful
- Send in the Clowns
- I Know Him So Well
- If I Loved You
- Somewhere
From the album
- The Broadway Album (1985)
Barbra Streisand popular songs
- Don’t Rain on My Parade
- The Way We Were
- Someday My Prince Will Come
- Woman in Love
- My Man
- Memory
- I’m the Greatest Star
- Don’t Lie to Me
- Guilty
- Funny Girl
- Evergreen (2014)
- I Finally Found Someone
- People (2014)
- People
- I’d Rather Be Blue Over You
- Papa, Can You Hear Me?
- You Are Woman, I Am Man
- If I Could
- A Piece of Sky
- What Kind of Fool
- I Still Can See Your Face
- Happy Days Are Here Again
- It Had to Be You (2014)
- Come Rain or Come Shine (2014)