Lyrics to
The Woman In The Moon

This version of The Woman In The Moon was released by Barbra Streisand in 1976.

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I was warned as a child of thirteen
Not to act too strong
Try to look like you belong bur don’t push girl
Save your time and trouble
Don’t misbehave
I was raised in a “No You Don’t World”
Overrun with rules
Memorize your lines and move as directed
That’s an age old story
Everybody knows that’s a worn out song
But you and I are changing that tune
We’re learning new rhythms from the woman
I said the woman in the moon
Little sister, little brother
Keep on pushin’
Don’t believe a word about
Things you heard about
Askin’ too much too soon
‘Cause they can hold back the tide
But they can never hold the woman in the moon
I believe there’s a best of both worlds
Mixing old and new
Recognizing change is seldom expected
As I long suspected
They believed that strange was a word for wrong
Well not in my song
‘Cause you, you and I are changing that tune
We’re learning new rhythms from that woman in the moon
Little sister, little brother
Keep on pushin’
Don’t believe a word about
Things you heard about
Askin’ too much too soon
‘Cause they can hold back the tide
But they can never hold the woman
I said the woman in the moon…

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Barbra Streisand has released many songs over the years besides The Woman In The Moon. 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 The Woman In The Moon by Barbra Streisand

The lyrics to The Woman In The Moon are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Barbra Streisand used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to The Woman In The Moon have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Barbra Streisand and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Woman In The Moon by Barbra Streisand. 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 The Woman In The Moon" means the words set to the music of The Woman In The Moon, 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 The Woman In The Moon and the lyrics to The Woman In The Moon 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 The Woman In The Moon, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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