Lyrics ACLU Tribute To Alan & Marilyn Bergman - Barbra Streisand

Two of my favorite songs are "The way we were"
Um, you see, there's the one "The way we were" that you all know
From the movie "The way we were"
But there were two "Way we weres" because Marilyn and Alan being very creative and very prolific writers
Finished the song eight weeks before we needed it
And they said, "Well, gee, we never had the opportunity to write a second lyric to the same song"
So, they wrote another lyric to it
To another melody by the way by Marvin Hamlisch
I thought It'd be interesting to, you know, to sing it tonight
Because it wound up on the cutting room floor and
Tonight we figured we'd pick it up and
Sing the other "The way we were" which we don't call "Way we were 2"
But to distinguish it from "The way we were 1"
We call it "The way we weren't"
That's what we call it

When I wander through my mind
In corners I can find
The way we were
In the places memories see
I keep the day we were
The way we were

We were wistful, we were young
All the smiles of love were waiting in our eyes
And we were neither innocent nor wise
As we are now
No, we hope to make the memories last
But time's been known to change the past
Only in some yesterday we safely stay
The way we were

"Isn't that pretty?"

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?

Memories, 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, ooh