Barbra Streisand - The way we were

MEM'RIES LIGHT THE CORNERS OF MY MIND

Una de las canciones emblemáticas del repertorio de Barbra Streisand, que hoy cumple 76 años, es sin duda The way we were, composición de Alan Bergman y Marilyn Bergman (letra) y Marvin Hamlisch (música) para la película "Tal como éramos" (The way we were, 1973) de Sydney Pollack, que la artista neoyorquina  protagonizó junto a Robert Redford. El tema, ganador de un Oscar a la mejor canción, un Globo de Oro y un Grammy, puede ser escuchado como fondo de este montaje de secuencias de la citada película.

The way we were  (lyrics)

Mem'ries light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored mem'ries of the way we were

Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were

Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again, tell me, would we, could we

Mem'ries may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget

So it's the laughter we will remember
Whenever we remember the way we were
The way we were