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Album: The Way We Were
Genre: Pop
Released: 1973
This song was the main song for a movie called (also) “The Way We Were” starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in 1973. It won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Song. It has been performed by multiple artists: Donna Summer, Gilda Radner, Paris Bennett, Barry Manilow and Girlicious, among others. The song spent three weeks at the #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973. Also, it was listed at #90 on “Billboard’s Greatest Songs of all time”. The related movie was a hit in theaters and became the fifth-highest grossing film of 1973. The movie is about a Jewish woman, who marries a white anglo-saxon protestant after the second World War.

Memories,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
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 re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? could we?

Memories, may be beautiful and yet
Whats too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget

So its the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember…
The way we were…
The way we were…