Bette Midler

Released: July 27, 1995

Songwriter: Bob Thiele, Jr. Bonnie Hayes Tonio K

Producer: Arif Mardin

If I close my eyes
Take my time
I can almost feel your lips against mine
If I close my eyes
Drift away
I can almost see us back there smiling

But it's too late, it's too late
Baby, I can't reach you
It's too late, too late
We've drifted out too far
I don'e konw where love goes
Or how we might have saved it
I only know it's gone
It's time that we moved on
It's too late

No use going on
No more crying
Stand outside ourselves and watch love dying

'Cause it's too late, it's too late
Baby, I can't hold you
It's too late, too late
Now time will take it's toll
I don't know where love goes
Or how we might have saved it
I only know it's gone
It's time that we moved on
It's too late

In my dreams we turn it back around
And the love we lost is found
And I hand it all to you
But I know I'm only dreamin'
It's too late. Ahhhhh, it's too late

Should I stay, should I wait
Should I stand here by your door?
I don't know what for
You don't live here anymore
And it's too late
My little baby
Yeah-ahhh, it's too late
It's too late

Bette Midler is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, comedienne and actress. Named in honor of Bette Davis, Midler’s career began performing off-broadway until she developed the stage persona The Divine Miss M while singing at the world-famous Continental Baths gay bathhouse. A pre-fame Barry Manilow, the venue’s in-house piano player, produced her Grammy-nominated debut album which scored three US top 40 singles including the Grammy-nominated “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Midler took home the Best New Artist Grammy that year, her first of three career wins.

Throughout the 1970s, Midler found further success with music, Broadway, television and film. The Rose, Midler’s 1979 acting debut, earned her both Oscar and Academy Award nominations, and its namesake song won her a Golden Globe and another Grammy – also giving Midler her first success overseas.

The early 1980s proved less successful for Midler with four under-performing singles and a box office flop with the film Jinxed. However, the second half of the decade would prove far more fruitful with a handful of very successful films including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Beaches, the latter featuring a chart-topping cover of “Wind Beneath My Wings” that won Midler her third Grammy and is considered one of the greatest songs in American film history.

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