Lyrics to
Being At War With Each Other

This version of Being At War With Each Other was released by Barbra Streisand in 1974.

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Everyone comes from
One father one mother
So why do we complicate
Our lives so much
By being at war with each other
Mmm…maybe I’m crazy
But I don’t understand it
Why do we seem to vote
To dig more holes
It’s such a waste of a planet
There must be a reason
That I can’t see
Maybe somebody else now
Knows better than me
All I know is
Everyone else is
A sister or a brother
So we’ve got to look around
Again and stop
Being at war with each other
Being at war with each other
Oh. . .
Maybe I’m crazy
But I don’t
No, I don’t understand it
(There must be a reason)
There must be a reason
(There must be a reason)
There must be a reason
That I can’t see
Somebody else must be
Better than me
AII I know is
Everyone else is
A sister or brothers
So we’ve got to look around
Again and stop
Being at war with each other
Being at war with each other…

Barbra Streisand has released many songs over the years besides Being At War With Each Other. Barbra Streisand released songs from 1962 to 2005 spanning across albums like Pins And Needles, The Barbra Streisand Album, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, People, The Third Album, Funny Girl, My Name Is Barbra, My Name Is Barbra, Two, Je M'Appelle Barbra, Color Me Barbra, Simply Streisand, A Christmas Album, A Happening In Central Park, What About Today?, Hello, Dolly!, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Barbra Joan Streisand, Stoney End, Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments, The Way We Were, ButterFly, Funny Lady, Lazy Afternoon, Classical Barbra, A Star Is Born, Streisand Superman, Songbird, Wet, The Main Event: A Glove Story, Guilty, Yentl, Emotion, The Broadway Album, Till I Loved You, Higher Ground, A Love Like Ours, Christmas Memories, Duets, The Movie Album, and Guilty Pleasures. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Barbra Streisand.

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The lyrics for Being At War With Each Other are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Barbra Streisand. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Being At War With Each Other have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Being At War With Each Other - Barbra Streisand and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Being At War With Each Other by Barbra Streisand in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Being At War With Each Other" means the words set to the music of Being At War With Each Other, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Being At War With Each Other and the lyrics to Being At War With Each Other are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to Being At War With Each Other, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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