Lyrics to
Watch Closely Now

This version of Watch Closely Now was released by Barbra Streisand in 1976.

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Warch closely now
Are you watching me now7
Your eyes are like fingers
They’re tourhinq my body
And arousing my soul
Riding the passion arising inside me
How high, can I go?
You’re comin’ witfh me girl, I’m gonna show you how
When it’s scary, don’t look down

Watch closely now
Are you warching me now?
I see the hunger arise in your eyes
And it’s urging me on
Higher and harder ond fasrer ond farther
Than I’ve ever gone
You’re coming closer lady;
Don’tcha leave me now
We’re gonna make it,
Don’t look down

Maybe I’m takin’ me too many chances
With no net at all
Maybe I’ll teach you at least that you’ve
Got to be free when you fall

Warch closely now
Are you watching me now?
I’m the master magician
Who’s setting you free
From the lies you’ve been told
When they’re breaking your back
Bring your last straw to me
I turn straw into gold
I’m gonna need you later,
When you’re not around
But I can take it, d
Don’t look down

Watch closely now…
Are you watching me now?

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About Lyrics and Watch Closely Now by Barbra Streisand

When you decide to study the lyrics to Watch Closely Now, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to Watch Closely Now 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 Watch Closely Now 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 Watch Closely Now" means the words set to the music of Watch Closely Now, 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 Watch Closely Now and the lyrics to Watch Closely Now 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 Watch Closely Now, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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