Barbra Streisand

Songwriter: David Shire

Producer: Wally Gold

The tears I'm shedding now
I hear will dry in time
The fears I'm fearing now
I hear will die in time
But while I wait around for tomorrow
Watching life drift away
What about, yes what about, today?
I know if I just wait
The sun will shine someday
And when it does
The weather will be fine someday
But while the skies I search for tomorrow
Stay that same shade of grey
What about, yes what about, today?
'Till nirvana comes
What about today?
'Till Messiah comes
What about today?
'Till the mountains move
And oceans part
And angels sing
And life can start
What about, yes what about, today?
I can't help wondering
If tomorrow ever comes
And what's my life
Been lived for if it never comes

I've heard a lot of toasts to tomorrow
But non of them ever say
What about today?
What about today?
'Till nirvana comes
What about today?
'Till Messiah comes
What about today?
'Till the mountains move
And oceans part
And angels sing
And life can start
What about, yes what about, today?
I can't help wondering
If tomorrow ever comes
And what's my life
Been lived for if it never comes
I've heard a lot of toast to tomorrow
Non of them ever say
What about today?
What about today?
What about, yes what about, today???

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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