Bette Midler

Released: October 10, 2000

Songwriter: Barrett Strong Norman Whitfield

Producer: Don Was

Each day through my window
I watch him as he passes by
I say to myself, "What an incredible guy."
To have a love like that
Must surely be a dream come true
Out of all the women in the world
He belongs to only you

But it was just my imagination
Runnin' away with me
It was just my imagination
Runnin' away with me

Soon we'll be married
And raise a family
A cozy little home out in the country
With two kids or three

I tell you, I can visualize it all
This couldn't be a dream
How real it all seems

Ohh, but it was just my imagination, once again
Runnin' away with me
Tell you it was just my imagination
Runnin' away with me

Every night on my knees I pray:
Dear Lord, hear my plea
Don't ever let another take his love from me
Or I will surely, surely die

His love is heavenly
When his arms enfold me
I hear a tender rhapsody
But in reality
He doesn't even know me

Once again
Runnin' away with me
Ohh, just my imagination
Runnin' away with me

It was just my imagination
Runnin' away with me
It was just my imagination
Running away with me

Just my imagination
Runnin' away with me . .

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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