Release Me

Barbra Streisand Release Me Lyrics
1.Being Good Isn't Good Enough

Lyricist:Jule StyneBetty ComdenAdolph Green
Writer(s):Jule StyneBetty ComdenAdolph Green

Being good isn't good enough
Being good won't be good enough
When I fly, I must fly extra high
And I'll need special wings so far to go
From so far below

Should I try?
Am I strong enough?
Is there time, have I long enough?
Gotta fly and if I fall
That's the way it's gotta be
There's no other way for me
Being good just won't be good enough
I'll be the best or nothing at all

I'll try, am I strong enough?
Is there time, have I long enough?
Gotta fly and if I fall
That's the way it's gotta be
There's no other way for me
Being good just won't be good enough
I'll be the best or nothing at all


2.Didn't We

Lyricist:Jimmy Webb
Writer(s):Jimmy Webb

Still uh? Faithful. Wait... wait. If I would have known there
were so many
people on the two sides here I would have had my nose fixed!
Never! These
people are too smart...
This time we almost
Made the pieces fit
Didn't we, love?
This time we almost
Made some sense of it
Hum... didn't we, love?
This time I had the answer
Right here in my hand
Then I touched it
And it had turned to sand
This time we almost
Sang our song in tune
Didn't we, love?
This time we almost
Made it, made it
To the moon
Oh, didn't we, love?
This time we almost
Made a poem rhyme
This time we almost
Made that long hard climb
Didn't we almost
Make it?
Didn't we almost
Make it?
Didn't we almost
Make it?
This time...


3.Willow Weep For Me

Lyricist:Ann Ronell
Writer(s):Ann Ronell

Oh, willow weep for me
Weeping willow tree
Bend your branches green
Along the stream
That runs to sea
Listen to my plea
Listen willow and weep for me

Gone my lovers dream
Lovely summer dream
Gone and left me here
To weep my tears into the stream
Sad as I can be
Hear me willow and weep for me

Whisper to the wind
And say that love has sinned
To leave my heart a breakin' and a makin' a moan
Murmur to the night
To hide her starry light
So none will find me sighing here and crying all alone
Oh, weeping willow tree
Weeping sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground
And cover me
When the shadows fall
Bend, oh, willow and weep for me

Oh, weeping willow tree
Weeping sympathy
Bend your branches down
Along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall
Bend, oh, willow and weep for me
Gone my lovers dream
Lovely summer's dream


4.Try To Win A Friend

Lyricist:Larry Gatlin
Writer(s):Larry Gatlin

When it's over, really over,
There ain't nothin' can start it over again.
Pack your bags and leave, ain't no use to grieve.
Though you've lost a lover, try to win a friend.

The partings easier when there are smiles instead of tears.
In your dreams you see that moment even if you live a million
years.
Shake hands goodbye then, for remember when;
Though you've lost a lover, try to win a friend.

Let him go home, and cry your eyes out,
You'll only feel a little better.
Try to keep your body busy and let your mind forget him.

'Cause when it's over, really over,
There ain't nothin' can start it over again.
Shake hands goodbye then, for remember when;
Though you've lost a lover, try to win a friend.

Though you leave behind a lover,
Leave behind a friend.

Try to win a friend.


5.I Think It's Going To Rain Today

Lyricist:Randy Newman
Writer(s):Randy Newman

A pale dead moon in a sky streaked with grey.
Human kindness is overflowing,
And I think it's gonna rain today.

Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles,
The frozen smiles to chase love away.
Human kindness is overflowing,
And I think it's gonna rain today.

Lonely, lonely.
Tin can at my feet,
I think I'll kick it down the street.
That's the way to treat a friend.

Bright before me the signs implore me:
Help the needy and show them the way.
Human kindness is overflowing,
And I think it's gonna rain today.

Lonely, so lonely.
Tin can at my feet,
I think I'll kick it down the street.
That's the way to treat a friend.

Bright before me the signs implore me:
Help the needy and show them the way.
Human kindness is overflowing,
And I think it's gonna rain today.


6.With One More Look At You

Lyricist:Kenneth AscherPaul Williams
Writer(s):Kenneth AscherPaul Williams

With one more look at you
I could learn to tame the clouds
And let the sun shine through
Leave a troubled past and I might start anew
I'll solve the mysteries if you're the prize
Refresh these tired eyes
With one more look at you
I might overcome the anger
That I learned to know
Find a piece of mind I lost so long ago
Your gentle touch has made me strong again
And I belong again
For when you look at me
I'm everything and more that I had dreamed I'd be
My spirit feels a promise
I won't be alone
We'll love and live more
Love and live forever
With one more look at you
I'd learn to change the stars
And change our fortunes too
I'd have the constellations paint your portrait too
So all the world might share this wonderous sight
The world could end each night
With one more look at you
With one more look at you
I want one more look at you


7.Lost In Wonderland

Lyricist:Antonio Carlos JobimMarshall Barer
Writer(s):Antonio Carlos JobimMarshall Barer

I'm all alone in a place I have never been.
I see a door to a garden and wander in.
And though my journey has barely begun
I am spun like a top to the top of the universe and
High in a spiral of ice I gaze upon a scene
That flickers far below me.
And what I see is a crinkle of colors and sounds.
Colors and sounds.

I can hear tinkles of crystal
and I can see sparkles of mist on the spangles
And I can feel tangles of tingles and sprinklings of angles
And inklings of angels around.

A rabbit crosses my path unexpectedly.
I hear a sigh of despair as he passes me.
I have a feeling that rabbit is late
For wherever he's going whatever he's headed for is my
destination.
Oh, show me the way to stay here in this world
Because here's where the right things happen.
Oh baby here's where the good things are.

Looking at this enormous butterfly,
Wondering if he cares to dance with me.
Delicate as a flower carved of chrysophrase,
Idly I ponder how far have I yet to find it.
I've got to find it and act as though I've lost it.
Otherwise I'm lost in wonderland.

I've got to find it or else I am bound
To the empty ground bleak and vast.
Where dark spells are cast.

Flooring above me and ceiling below me
And chandeliers rising like tremulous towers
And tables and chairs and beds hanging like blossoms
In turquoise and purple and green.

You were asleep so I guess you were not aware,
I took a walk through your mind and I lingered there.
But what I found I can never reveal to you
Not with my voice nor the pitch of my flute recall it.
You'll simply have to come walking with me
One day into that wonderland shining behind your eyes,
Beyond the gossamer doors of sleep.
Just sleep...


8.How Are Things In Glocca Morra ? / Heather On The Hill

Lyricist:See Sub-songs
Writer(s):See Sub-songs

I hear a bird
Londonderry bird
It, well, maybe he's bringing me a cheering word
I hear a breeze
A river Shannon breeze
It, well, maybe its followed me across the sea
Then tell me please

How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that little brook still leaping there?
Does it still run down to donny cove
Through Kenny banks, Kilcarrey and Kildare?
How are things in glocca morra?
Is that willow tree still weeping there?
Does that laddy with the twinklin' eye
Come whistling by?
And does he walk away
Sad and dreamy there
Not to see me there?

So I ask each weeping willow
And each brook along the way
And each lad that comes a whistling
To relay
How are things in Glocca Morra
This fine day?

The mist of May is in the gloamin'
And all the clouds are holdin' still
So take my hand and let's go roamin'
Through the heather on the hill

The mornin' dew is blinking yonder
There's lazy music in the air
And all I want to do is wander
Through the heather on the hill

There may be other days as rich and rare
There may be other springs as full and fare
But they won't be the same
They'll come and go
But this I must know

How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that laddy calling to relay?
Can we meet in Glocca Morra
Some fine day?
Some fine day


9.Mother And Child

Lyricist:Michel LegrandAlan BergmanMarilyn Bergman
Writer(s):Michel LegrandAlan BergmanMarilyn Bergman

For a little face, that's the biggest yawn
Look at teddy bear yawning too
All those animals sleeping in your bed
Do you really think there'll be room for you?
Time to tuck you in, warm and cozy-like
Are you comfortable little lamb?
Such a sleepy smile you must surely know
All the lovely things you'll be dreaming of
Swinging tree top high, sliding belly down
Eating jelly beans to your heart's delight
In a fairy tale in a wonderland through the night...

I hope that she forgets and leaves my door open
So I can have a little light from the hallway
If I can hear them talking, If I can hear them laughing
I know I won't be frightened, maybe
At night I know that's just my chair, the nice red one
But it looks different than it looks in the daytime
Sometimes I think it's moving, a big enormous monster
A dinosaur or dragon maybe
I close my eyes and there are ghosts and witches
I'm scared a wicked witch will eat me
Oh, how I wish it wasn't always dark at night...


10.If It's Meant To Be

Lyricist:Alan BergmanBrian ByrneMarilyn Bergman
Writer(s):Alan BergmanBrian ByrneMarilyn Bergman

If it's meant to be...

Why was there no applause..
it was our best performance..
all in our thought last night..
went quite well..
we knew all of our lines..
and we knew how to say them..
just how play them..
keeping it light..till the tears fell..
though we both knew our story was ending..
we were surprised when it came..
some things are just too good to be true..
and no one's to blame..
So there was no applause..
when we brought down the curtain..
we were so certain..
there wasn't anything left.. to say..
maybe somehow our heart's knew..
what our eyes couldn't see..
Love would wait for us someday.. someway..
If it's meant to be..

So there was no applause..
though there were tears and laughter..
then moment's after.. we left the stage..
and we closed the play..
maybe somehow our heart's knew..
what our eyes couldn't see..
Love would wait for us someday.. someway..
If it's meant to be...


11.Home

Lyricist:Charlie Smalls
Writer(s):Charlie Smalls

When I think of home, I think of a place
Where there's love overflowing
I wish I was home, I wish I was back there
With the things I've been knowin'
Wind that makes the tall trees bend into leaning
Suddenly the snowflakes that fall they have a meaning
Sprinkling the scene
Makes it all clean

Maybe there's a chance for me to go back
Now that I have some direction
It would sure be nice to back home
Where there's love and affection
And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up
Time be my friend
Let me start again

Suddenly my world's gone and changed its face
But I still know where I'm going
I have had my mind spun around in space
And yet I've watched it growing
If you're listening God, please don't make it hard to go
To know if we should believe the things that we see
Tell us should we run away? should we try and stay?
Or would it be better just to let things be?

Living here in this brand new world might be a fantasy
But it's taught me to love so it's real to me
And I've learned that we must look inside our hearts to find
A world full of love like yours and mine
Like Home

My friends smiling down on me, giving me nursery.
I think of a peaceful world enjoy all around me
Love like we shared can never be taken away from me
I just sit down and it get's all down in my bones
I hear my friends telling me, 'Stephanie, please sing my song'
I wanna sing, I wanna shout, I wanna tell you what it's all
about