The Way We Weren’t / The Way We Were

Lyrics

[Part I: The Way We Weren't] [Intro] Two of my favorite songs are "The Way We Were" Um, you see, there's the one "Way We Were" that you all know From the movie The Way We Were But there were two "Way We Were"s because Marilyn and Alan Being very creative and very prolific writers, uh Finished the song eight weeks before we needed it And they said, "Wеll, gee, we never havе 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 would 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 Were Were Two" But to distinguish it from "The Way We Were One" We call it "The Way We Weren't" That's what we call it [Verse 1] When I wander through my mind In corners I can find The way we were In the places memories sleep I keep the day we were The way we were [Bridge] 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 [Verse 2] Now we hope to make the memories last But time's been known to change the past Only in some yesterday We'll safely stay The way we were [Outro] Isn't that pretty? [Part II: The Way We Were] [Bridge] 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? [Verse] 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 [Outro] Hmm hmm Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm