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

                                                           

                                  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.                                                                                                     

words & music by   Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman &  Marilyn Bergman  '73

film - movie:   The Way We Were

performed by:   Barbra Streisand