Lyrics to
Lullaby For Myself

This version of Lullaby For Myself was released by Barbra Streisand in 1977.

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Self-contained and self-content
No promises to keep
I’ve got things so together
That I just can’t fall asleep
Walked the night and drank the moon
Got home at half past four
And I knew that no one marked my time
As I unlocked my door
It’s really lovely to discover
That you like to be alone
Not to owe your man an answer
When he gets you on the phone
Not to share a pair of pork chops
When you crave champagne and cheese
And your aim becomes to please yourself
And not to aim to please
Oh they sold me when they told me
Two can live as cheap as one
But I’m learning twice your earning
Doesn’t mean it’s twice the fun
If you spend each dime and all your time
On someone else’s schemes
I’m not needy but I’m greedy
And I live my deepest dreams
Take an hour in the shower
Use the water while it’s hot in the tub
A hand to scrub my back
Is all I haven’t got
Self-aware with self-esteem
Is selfishness a crime
I take the day for quite a ride
And I take my own sweet time
Time to spare and time to share
And grateful I would be
If just one damn man
Would share the need
To be alone with me

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Barbra Streisand has released many songs over the years besides Lullaby For Myself. 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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About Lyrics and Lullaby For Myself by Barbra Streisand

When you decide to study the lyrics to Lullaby For Myself, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to Lullaby For Myself have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Lullaby For Myself if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Lullaby For Myself" means the words set to the music of Lullaby For Myself, 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 Lullaby For Myself and the lyrics to Lullaby For Myself 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 Lullaby For Myself, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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