Bette Midler

Released: September 4, 1990

Songwriter: Billie Hughes Roxanne Joy Seeman

Producer: Arif Mardin

Maybe you and I see life with two different visions
And neither one of us is wrong or right
And maybe we're too serious and don't wanna listen
I just wanna make you laugh tonight

We're like day and night, night and day
We are both so different in so many ways
We're like night and day, day and night
And we go together just like black and white

Seems you're always out one door when I'm in the other
It's so hard to find some quiet time
(So hard to find the time)
Wish that we could spend our lives alone with each other
And never think about the world outside

We're like day and night, night and day
We are oh, so different in so many ways
We're like night and day, day and night
Still we know it's gonna be all right

And if we never really get the picture right
How many of us ever really win the fight?
I never want to loose your love
Or let the distance get the best of us
'cause time is moving fast enough!

Maybe we don't always share a common opinion
It's true that you and I don't think alike
But when I look into you eyes and all is forgiven
(all is forgiven)
All I wanna do is hold you tight

We're like day and night, night and day
We are both so different in so many ways
We're like night and day, day and night
Still we know it's gonna be all right
We're like night and day, day and night
We go together just like black and white

We're like, we're like, we're like, we're like
Day and night, night and day
Day and night, night and day
We're like, we're like, we're like
Day and night, night and day
Like black and white

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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