Barbra Streisand

Released: October 25, 1988

Songwriter: Barry Mason Alan Hawkshaw Marilyn Bergman Alan Bergman

Producer: Barbra Streisand Denny Diante

You smiled and you were in my life
I saw my dreams there in your eyes
You touched my hand, you touched my heart
You held me through the night
It felt so right
But love, it isn't all romance
It's filled with clouds and stormy skies
We may have come too close, too fast
But if we really care
So much is there
Why let it go? Why let it go?
Why run away
When what we have is so worth fighting for
Why let it go, if ev'ry day
We can hide our feelings less
So we can love each other more
Why let it go?
I know that when I'm in your arms
There's no such thing as good goodbyes
Â€˜Cause I believe that we have found
A love of heart and mind
So hard to find
Why let it go? Why let it go?
Don't run away
It's not easy, but it's worth the fighting for
Why let it go, if ev'ry day
We can hide our feelings less
So we can love each other more
Why let it go? Why let it go? ...

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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