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The Broadway Album
by Barbra Streisand
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Overall Rating:
3.6158
Avg. Critic Score:
4.0000
The Broadway Album Lyrics
Lyrics
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Track
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- [From "Sunday In The Park With George"]
- [Barbra:] Look, I've spent a lot of time working on this
- [Producer 1:] Look, no one's gonna buy it -- no one.
- [Producer 2:] No one in Middle America, anyway. That's for sure.
- [Producer 3:] He's right!
- [Producer 1:] Sweetheart, it's just not commercial!
- [Barbra:] What is commercial?
- [Producer 2:] It's not what's selling nowadays.
- [Producer 1:] I mean - personally, I love it, but
- [Barbra (sung):]Be nice, girl!
- [Producer 3:] Nobody's into this kind of material.
- [Barbra (sung):] You have to pay a price, girl!
- [Producer 2:] This album needs a hit single we can push.
- [Barbra (sung):]They like to give advice, girl!
- [Producer 1:] The whole idea's too risky.
- [Barbra (sung):] Don't think about it twice, girl!
- [Producer 2:] The audience won't understand this kind of thing!
- [Barbra (sung):]It's time to get to work!
- Barbra (spoken): I disagree! Why don't you wait until you hear it?
- [Producer 3:] This is like your old stuff!
- [Barbra (sung):] Art isn't easy.
- [Producer 3:] You've got to appeal to the kids.
- [Barbra (sung):] Even when you're hot.
- [Producer 2:] Why would you want to make an album like this anyway?
- [Barbra (sung):] Advancing art is easy.
- [Producer 1:] I think we ought to talk seriously about this.
- [Barbra (sung):] Financing it is not!
- [Producer 2:] Why take chances?
- [Barbra (sung):] A vision's just a vision if it's only in your head!
- [Producer 1:] Nobody respects your artistic integrity more than I do, but
- [Barbra (sung):] If no one gets to hear it, it's as good as dead!
- [Producer 2:] You have to think about you career!
- [Barbra (sung):] It has to come to life!
- Bit by bit, putting it together
- Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art
- Every moment makes a contribution
- Every little detail plays a parts
- Having just a vision's no solution
- Everything depends on execution
- Putting it together, that's what counts!
- Ounce by ounce, putting in together
- Small amounts, adding up to make a work of art
- First of all you need a good foundation
- Otherwise it's risky from the start
- Takes a little cocktail conversation
- But without the proper preparation
- Having just a vision's no solution
- Everything depends on execution
- The art of making art
- Is putting it together, bit by bit
- [Producer 2:] Do we really need all these musicians?
- [Barbra:] Link by link, making the connections, yes we do!
- Drink by drink, taking every comment as it comes
- Learning how to play the politician
- Like you play piano, bass and drums
- Otherwise you'll find your composition
- Isn't gonna get much exhibition
- Art isn't easy
- Every minor detail is a major decision
- Have to keep things in scale
- Have to hold to your vision
- [Producer 1:] Why don't we talk about this over dinner, darling?
- What's a little cocktail conversation
- If it gets the funds for your foundation
- Every time I start to feel defensive
- I remember vinyl is expensive!
- [Producer 3:] Would you agree to do an interview?
- [Barbra:] Maybe one!
- Dot by dot, building up the image
- Shot by shot, keeping at a distance doesn't pay
- Still if you remember your objective
- Not give all your privacy away
- A little bit of hype can be effective
- As long as you can keep it in perspective
- Even when you get some recognition
- Everything you do you still audition
- Art isn't easy
- Overnight you're a trend
- You're the right combination
- Then the trend's at an end
- You're suddenly last year's sensation!
- All they ever want is repetition
- All they really like is what they know
- Gotta keep a link with your tradition
- Gotta learn to trust your intuition
- While you re-establish your position
- So that you can be on exhibit...
- So that your work can be on exhibition!
- Be new, girl!
- They tell you till they're blue, girl!
- You're new, or else you're through, girl!
- And even if it's true, girl,
- You do what you can do!
- Bit by bit, Putting it together
- Piece by piece, working on the vision night and day
- All it takes is time and perseverance
- With a little luck along the way
- Putting in a personal appearance
- Gathering supporters and adherents...
- [Producer 1:] Well, she's an original!
- [Producer 3:] WAS!
- [Barbra:] Mapping out the songs but in addition
- Harmonizing each negotiation
- Balancing the part that's all musicians
- With the part that's strictly presentation
- Balancing the money with the mission
- Till you have the perfect orchestration
- Even if you do have the suspicion
- That it's taking all your concentration
- The art of making art
- Is putting it together, bit by bit
- Beat by beat, part by part
- Sheet by sheet, chart by chart
- Track by track, bit by bit,
- Reel by reel, pout by pout
- Stack by stack, snit by snit,
- meal by meal, shout by shout
- Deal by deal, spat by spat
- Shpiel by shpiel, doubt by doubt
- And that... Is the state of the art!
- [From "Carousel"]
- If I loved you,
- Time and again I would try to say
- All I'd want you to know.
- If I loved you,
- Words wouldn't come in an easy way
- Round in circles I'd go!
- Longing to tell you,
- But afraid and shy,
- I'd let my golden chances pass me by!
- Soon you'd leave me,
- Off you would go in the mist of day,
- Never, never to know...
- How I loved you...
- If I loved you...
- [From "West Side Story"]
- Could be?
- Who Knows?
- There's something due any day
- I will know, right away
- Soon as it shows
- It may come connanballing down
- Through the sky
- Gleam in its eye, bright as rose
- Who knows?
- It's only just out of reach
- Down the block, on a beach
- under a tree
- I got a feeling there's a miracle due
- Gonna come true, comin' to me...
- Could it be, yes it could
- Something's comin', something good
- If I can wait
- Something's comin'
- I don't know what it is
- But it is gonna be great
- With a click, with a shock
- Phone'll jingle, door will knock
- Open the latch
- Something's comin'
- Don't know when
- But it's soon
- Catch the moon
- One handed catch
- Around the corner
- Or whistlin' down the river
- Come on, deliver to me
- Will it be, yes it will
- Maybe just by holding still
- It'll be there
- Come on, something
- Come on in
- Don't be shy
- Meet a guy
- Pull up a chair
- The air is humming
- And something great is coming
- Who knows?
- It's only just out of reach
- Down the block, on a beach
- Maybe tonight...
- Maybe tonight...
- Maybe tonight...!
- [From "Sweeny Todd"]
- Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around
- Nothing's gonna harm you, no sir, not while I'm around
- Demons are prowling everywhere nowadays
- I'll send them howling
- I don't care, I got ways
- No one's gonna hurt you,
- No one's gonna dare
- Others can desert you,
- Not to worry, whistle, I'll be there!
- Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while,
- But in time...
- Nothing can harm you
- Not while I'm around...
- Being close and being clever
- Ain't like being true
- I don't need to,
- I would never hide a thing from you,
- Like some...
- No one's gonna hurt you, no one's gonna dare
- Others can desert you,
- Not to worry, whistle, I'll be there!
- Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while
- But in time...
- Nothing can harm you
- Not while I'm around...
- [From "Company"]
- Someone to hold you too close
- Someone to hurt you too deep
- Someone to sit in your chair
- And ruin your sleep
- And make you aware of being alive
- Someone to need you too much
- Someone to know you too well
- Someone to pull you up short
- And put you through hell
- And give you support for being alive-being alive
- Make me alive, make me confused
- Mock me with praise, let me be used
- Vary my days, but alone is alone, not alive!
- Somebody hold me too close
- Somebody force me to care
- Somebody make me come through
- I'll always be there
- As frightened as you of being alive,
- Being alive, being alive!
- Someone you have to let in
- Someone whose feelings you spare
- Someone who, like it or not
- Will want you to share a little, a lot of being alive
- Make me alive, make me confused
- Mock me with praise, let me be used
- Vary my days, but alone is alone, not alive!
- Somebody crowd me with love
- Somebody force me to care
- Somebody make me come through
- I'll always be there
- As frightened as you to help us survive,
- Being alive, being alive, being alive, being alive
- [From "Guys And Dolls"]
- The average unmarried female
- Basic'lly insecure
- Due to some long frustration
- May react
- With psychosomatic symptoms
- Difficult to endure
- Affecting the upper respiratory tract
- In other words,
- Just from waiting around
- For that little band of gold
- A person can develop a cold
- You can spray her wherever you figure
- The streptococci lurk
- You can give her a shot
- For whatever she's got
- But it just won't work
- If she's tired of getting the fish-eye
- From the hotel clerk
- A person
- Can develop a cold
- The female remaining single
- Just in the legal sense
- Shows a neurotic tendency
- See note:
- Note: Chronic organic syndromes
- Toxic and hypertense
- Involving the eye,
- The ear and the nose and throat
- In other words,
- Just from worrying
- Whether the wedding is on or off,
- A person
- Can develop a cough
- You can feed her all day
- With the Vitamin A
- And the Bromo Fizz
- But the medicine never
- Gets anywhere near
- Where the trouble is
- If she's getting a kind
- Of name for herself
- And the name ain't "his"
- A person
- Can develop a cough
- And further more
- Just from stalling
- And stalling and stalling
- The wedding trip
- A person
- Can develop La grippe
- When they get on a train
- For Niag'ra
- And she can hear church bells chime
- The compartment is air conditioned
- And the mood sublime
- Then they get off at Saratoga
- For the fourteenth time
- A person
- Can develop La grippe
- La grippe, La post nasal drip
- With the wheezes
- And the sneezes
- And a sinus that's really a pip!
- For a lack of community property
- And a feeling she's getting too old
- A person
- Can develop
- A bad, bad cold!
- [From "A Little Night Music"]
- Isn't it rich, are we a pair
- Me here at last on the ground
- You in mid-air
- Send in the clowns
- Isn't it bliss, don't you approve
- One who keeps tearing around
- One who can't move
- Where are the clowns
- Send in the clowns
- Just when I'd stopped opening doors
- Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours
- Making my entrance again with my usual flair
- Sure of my lines
- No one is there
- Don't you love a farce,
- My fault I fear,
- I thought that you'd want what I want
- Sorry my dear!
- But where are the clowns
- There ought to be clowns
- Quick send in the clowns
- What a surprise,
- Who could foresee?
- I'd come to feel about you
- What you felt about me?
- Why only now when I see
- That you've drifted away?
- What a surprise...
- What a cliche...
- Isn't it rich, isn't it queer
- Losing my timing this late in my career
- And where are the clowns
- Quick send in the clowns
- Don't bother, they're here
- [From "Show Boat"]
- Oh listen sister,
- I love my mister man,
- And I can't tell you why
- There is no reason why I should love that man,
- It must be somethin' that de angels have planned.
- Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly,
- I gotta love one man till I die.
- Can't help lovin' that man of mine.
- Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow,
- Tell me I'm crazy, maybe I know.
- Can't help lovin' that man of mine
- When he goes away, that's a rainy day,
- And when he comes back that day is fine,
- The sun will shine!
- He can come home as late as can be,
- Home without him ain't no home to me,
- Can't help lovin' that man of mine.
- Can't help lovin' that man of mine.
- [From "West Side Story"]
- Someday, somewhere
- We'll find a new way of living
- Will find a way of forgiving
- Somewhere...
- There's a place for us
- Somewhere a place for us
- Peace and quiet and open air
- Wait for us
- Somewhere
- There's a time for us
- Someday there'll time for us
- Time together and time to spare
- Time to learn, time to care
- Someday, somewhere
- We'll find a new way of living
- Will find there's a way of forgiving
- Somewhere...
- There's a place for us
- A time and place for us
- Hold my hand and we're half way there
- Hold my hand and I'll take you there
- Somehow...
- Someday, somewhere...
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