Bette Midler

Released: November 12, 1991

Songwriter: Diane Warren

Producer: Arif Mardin Dave Grusin Joe Mardin Marc Shaiman

Old friend, here we are
After all the years and tears
And all that we've been through
It feels so good to see you

Lookin' back in time
There've been other friends and other lovers
But no other one like you
All my life, no one ever has known me better

I must have traveled down a thousand roads
Been so many places, seen so many faces
Always on my way to somethin' new

Oh, but it doesn't matter
'Cause no matter where I go
Every road leads back
Every road just seems to lead me back to you

Old friend, there were times
I didn't want to see your face
Or hear your name again
Now those times are far behind me

It's so good to see your smile
I'd forgotten how nobody else
Could make me smile the way you do
All this time, you're the one I still want beside me

I must have traveled down a thousand roads
Been so many places, seen so many faces
Always on my way to somethin' new

Oh, but it doesn't matter
'Cause no matter where I go
Every road leads back
Every road just seems to lead me back to you

I must have traveled down a thousand roads
Been so many places, seen so many faces
Always on my way to somethin' new

Oh, but it doesn't matter
'Cause no matter where I go
Every road leads back
Every road just seems to lead me back
Every road leads back
Every road just seems to lead me back to you
Every road just seems to lead me back to you

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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