Released: November 8, 1983
Songwriter: Marilyn Bergman Alan Bergman Michel Legrand
Producer: Barbra Streisand Marilyn Bergman Alan Bergman Dave Grusin Phil Ramone
Verse:
Tell me where
Where is it written
What it is I'm meant to be?
That I can't dare...
It all began the day I found
That from my window
I could only see
A piece of sky
I stepped outside and looked around
I never dreamed it was so wide
Or even half as high
The time had come
(papa, can you hear me?)
To try my wings
(papa, are you near me?)
And even thought it seemed at any moment I could fall
I felt the most
(papa, can you see me?)
Amazing things
(can you understand me?)
The things you can't imagine
If you've never flown at all
Though it's safer to stay on the ground
Sometimes where danger lies
There the sweetest of pleasures are found
No matter where I go-
There'll be mem'ries that tug at my sleeve
But there will also be
More to question yet more to believe
(oh tell me where-
Where is the someone who will turn to look at me
And want to sahre
My ev'ry sweet-imagined possibility?)
The more I live - the more I learn
The more I learn - the more I realize
The less I know
Each step I take-
(papa, I've a voice now!)
Each page I turn-
(papa, I've a choice now!)
Each mile I travel only means
The more I have to go
What's wrong with wanting more?
If you can fly - then soar!
With all there is - why settle for
Just a piece of sky?
Papa, I can hear you...
Papa, I can see you...
Papa, I can feel you...
Papa, watch me fly!
Tell me where
Where is it written
What it is I'm meant to be?
That I can't dare...
It all began the day I found
That from my window
I could only see
A piece of sky
I stepped outside and looked around
I never dreamed it was so wide
Or even half as high
The time had come
(papa, can you hear me?)
To try my wings
(papa, are you near me?)
And even thought it seemed at any moment I could fall
I felt the most
(papa, can you see me?)
Amazing things
(can you understand me?)
The things you can't imagine
If you've never flown at all
Though it's safer to stay on the ground
Sometimes where danger lies
There the sweetest of pleasures are found
No matter where I go-
There'll be mem'ries that tug at my sleeve
But there will also be
More to question yet more to believe
(oh tell me where-
Where is the someone who will turn to look at me
And want to sahre
My ev'ry sweet-imagined possibility?)
The more I live - the more I learn
The more I learn - the more I realize
The less I know
Each step I take-
(papa, I've a voice now!)
Each page I turn-
(papa, I've a choice now!)
Each mile I travel only means
The more I have to go
What's wrong with wanting more?
If you can fly - then soar!
With all there is - why settle for
Just a piece of sky?
Papa, I can hear you...
Papa, I can see you...
Papa, I can feel you...
Papa, watch me fly!
more tracks from the album
What Matters Most: Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman
- You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
- After the Rain
- That Face
- Solitary Moon
- So Many Stars
- What Matters Most
- The Same Hello, the Same Goodbye
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
- The Windmills of Your Mind
- Papa, Can You Hear Me?
- The Way We Were
- Nice ‘n’ Easy
- I’ll Never Say Goodbye
- The Island
- The Summer Knows
- A Piece of Sky
- Alone in the World
- Something New in My Life
- Pieces of Dreams
From the albums
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)