126. Barbra Streisand - Sweet Forgiveness (Official Audio)

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards.

Awards: Ten Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, Nine Golden Globe Awards, Five Emmy Awards; Four Peabody Awards, Two Academy Awards, The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the 4th Recipient of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award in 2023.

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Lyrics

4 a.m.
Another sleepless night
Each weary word I write
A tear on the page
Here I am
Asking myself again
Why does this love we're in
Stay just out of reach?
Tell me why
We never get the balance just exactly right
We scream across the distance from our separate sides
And wonder when did passion turn to pride?
You and I
Two lives, one heart
Believing every day
Will be the day when sweet forgiveness starts
I need you
To let me stand alone
To call my life my own
Yet stand by my side
I know I
Don't let you know enough
Don't let love show enough
Don't let you be strong
Oh, tell me why
We never get surrender just exactly right
We never can remember there's another side
That lies between the passion and the pride
You and I
Two lives, one heart
One leap of faith away
We stay until the sweet forgiveness starts
Walls, we built these very walls
Where my shadow falls alone
And doors between my life and yours
Opened then before, everything is gone
Sweet forgiveness touch me before dawn
You and I
Two lives, one heart
We keep the dream alive
Surviving 'til the sweet forgiveness starts

"Her name is Barbra Streisand. She is 20 years old, she has a three-octave promiscuity of range, she packs more personal dynamic power than anybody I can recall since Libby Holman or Helen Morgan. She can sing as loud as Ethel Merman and as persuasively as Lena or Ella, or as brassy as a Sophie Tucker ... and only Barbra Streisand can turn 'Cry Me a River' into something comparable to Enrico Caruso having his first bash at Pagliacci. When Streisand cries you a river, you got a river, Sam ... and she will be around 50 years from now if good songs are still written to be sung by good singers." — Syndicated columnist Robert Ruark, on her 1963 performances at the Blue Angel.

 

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