Released: September 15, 1998
Songwriter: Leonard Cohen Jennifer Warnes Bill Elliott
Producer: Ted Templeman
[Verse 1]
There was a child named Bernadette
I heard the story long ago
She saw the queen of heaven once
And kept the vision in her soul
No one believed what she had seen
No one believed what she heard
That there were sorrows to be healed
And mercy, mercy in this world
[Chorus]
So many hearts I find, broke like yours and mine
Torn by what we've done and can't undo
I just want to hold you, come on, let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
[Verse 2]
We've been around, we fall, we fly
We mostly fall, we mostly run
And every now and then we try
To mend the damage that we've done
Tonight, tonight I just can't rest
I've got this joy here, here inside my breast
To think that I did not forget
That child, that song of Bernadette
[Chorus]
So many hearts I find, hearts like yours and mine
Torn by what we've done and can't undo
Well I just want to hold you, come on, let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
[Outro]
I just want to hold you, won't you let me hold you?
Like Bernadette would do
There was a child named Bernadette
I heard the story long ago
She saw the queen of heaven once
And kept the vision in her soul
No one believed what she had seen
No one believed what she heard
That there were sorrows to be healed
And mercy, mercy in this world
[Chorus]
So many hearts I find, broke like yours and mine
Torn by what we've done and can't undo
I just want to hold you, come on, let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
[Verse 2]
We've been around, we fall, we fly
We mostly fall, we mostly run
And every now and then we try
To mend the damage that we've done
Tonight, tonight I just can't rest
I've got this joy here, here inside my breast
To think that I did not forget
That child, that song of Bernadette
[Chorus]
So many hearts I find, hearts like yours and mine
Torn by what we've done and can't undo
Well I just want to hold you, come on, let me hold you
Like Bernadette would do
[Outro]
I just want to hold you, won't you let me hold you?
Like Bernadette would do
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Bathhouse Betty (1998)
Bette Midler popular songs
- The Rose
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- Rose’s Turn
- From a Distance
- The Glory of Love
- God Give Me Strength
- Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
- Baby, It’s Cold Outside
- Fever
- When Your Life Was Low
- Fire Down Below
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- You’ll Never Know
- Song of Bernadette
- Married Men
- Big Socks
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Cradle Days
- Moonlight Dancing
- No Jestering
- Storybook Children
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Twisted
- Buckets of Rain