Barbra Streisand

Released: January 1, 1974

Songwriter: Carole King

Producer: Tommy LiPuma

Everyone comes from
One father one mother
So why do we complicate
Our lives so much
By being at war with each other
Mmm...maybe I'm crazy
But I don't understand it
Why do we seem to vote
To dig more holes
It's such a waste of a planet
There must be a reason
That I can't see
Maybe somebody else now
Knows better than me
All I know is
Everyone else is
A sister or a brother
So we've got to look around
Again and stop
Being at war with each other

Being at war with each other
Oh. .
Maybe I'm crazy
But I don't
No, I don't understand it
(there must be a reason)
There must be a reason
(there must be a reason)
There must be a reason
That I can't see
Somebody else must be
Better than me
Aii I know is
Everyone else is
A sister or brothers
So we've got to look around
Again and stop
Being at war with each other
Being at war with each other...

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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