The Way We Were

Artist: Barbra Streisand (peak Billboard position # 1 in 1974)
Words and Music by Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman.

Title song from the movie

 

Mem'ries light the corners of my mind
Misty water-coloured 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.

(hums first line and a variation on the second line)