Bette Midler

Released: October 10, 2000

Songwriter: Cecil Womack Eddie “Gip” Noble Linda Womack

Producer: Don Was

Oooooh
Oooooh

Lookin' back over my years
I guess I've shed some tears
Told myself time and again
This time I'm gonna win

But another fight. Things ain't right
I'm losing again
It takes a fool to lose twice
And start all over again

I think I better let him go
'cause it looks like another love TKO
Let it go, baby
I think I better let him go
'cause it looks like another love TKO. Ohh, yeah

I tried to take control of the love
He took control of me
See you lose all thought and sense of time
You have a change of mind

Takin' the bumps and the bruises
And all the pain of a two-time lose
And I try to hold on. My faith is gone
It's just another sad song

So I think I gotta
Gotta let it go
I gotta let him go
Let it go, baby
'cause it looks like another love TKO
Oh, yes it does, yes it does

I think I gotta
Gotta let it go
Mmmmmmm

Let it go, baby
'cause it looks like another love TKO

Boy, whatcha want me to do? Can't stand up to you
No no no no

I try to take control of the love
It took control of me
See you lose all thought and sense of time
You have a change of mind

Taking the bumps and the bruises
And all the pain of a two-time lose
Then I try to hold on. My faith is gone
It's just another sad song

I think I better
Better let it go
I better let him go
Let it go, baby
'cause it looks like another love TKO

Yeah, I better
Better let it go
I gotta let him go
Let it go, Miss M
Another love, love TKO

Ooohhhh, boy you got me turned around and around and around
Around and around
Everybody's got to cry sometime
That's what they say. I heard them say

Everybody's gonna cry sometime
Mama says that they did, that they did

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii . .

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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