THE WAY WE WERE (THE WAY WE WERE, 1973)

"When you love someone, from Roosevelt to me, you go deaf, dumb and blind." - Hubbell Gardner

One of The Way We Were's tagline was 'Some memories last forever'. Indeed, but the movie offers more than itself and the team-up of Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford. The theme itself is enough to revisit this 1973 film. Haunting and melodic, Barbara Stresand is at her soulful best. The theme won the best original song in the Oscars, Golden Globe and the Grammys.

THE WAY WE WERE
sung by: Barbra Streisand

Mem’ries light the corners of my mind
Misty water color 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 be, 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