Bette Midler

Released: October 10, 2000

Songwriter: Joe Sample Will Jennings

Producer: Don Was

Always remember my friend
The world will change again
And you may have to come back
Through everywhere you've been

When your life was low
You had nowhere to go
People turned their backs on you
And everybody said that you were through

I took you in, made you strong again
Put you back together
Out of all the dreams you left along the way
You left me shining

Now you're doing well
From stories I hear tell
You own the world again
Everyone's your friend

Although I never hear from you
Still it's nice to know
You used to love me so
When your life was low

I took you in. I made you strong again
I put you back together
Out of all the dreams you left along the way
You left me shining

Now you're doing well
From stories I hear tell
You own the world again
Everyone's your friend

Although I never hear from you
Still it's nice to know
You used to love me so
You used to love me so
When your life was low

But always remember my friend
The world will change again
And you may have to come back
Through everywhere you've been
The world will change again

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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