Album: Guilty (1980)

Charted: 1 1

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• Life is a moment in space
  When the dream is gone
  It's a lonelier place
  I kiss the morning goodbye
  But down inside you know
  We never know why
  The road is narrow and long
  When eyes meet eyes
  And the feeling is strong
  I turn away from the wall
  I stumble and fall
  But I give you it all
  
  I am a woman in love
  And I'd do anything
  To get you into my world
  And hold you within
  It's a right I defend
  Over and over again
  What do I do?
  
  With you eternally mine
  In love there is
  No measure of time
  We planned it all at the start
  That you and I
  Live in each other's hearts
  We may be oceans away
  You feel my love
  I hear what you say
  No truth is ever a lie
  I stumble and fall
  But I give you it all
  
  I am a woman in love
  And I'd do anything
  To get you into my world
  And hold you within
  It's a right I defend
  Over and over again
  What do I do?
  
  I am a woman in love
  And I'm talking to you
  You know I know how you feels
  What a woman can do
  It's a right
  I defend over and over again
  
  I am a woman in love
  And I'd do anything
  To get you into my world
  And hold you within
  It's a right I defend
  Over and over again Writer/s: Barry Alan Gibb, Robin Hugh Gibb
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 10

• Paulo Pinheiro from BrazilJohn from Brisbane, but that IS a song of a strong woman who knows what she wants. She is not sobbing in a corner. She is determined to get the man into her world.
• Ignacio Varga from AlbuquerqueDon't tell anybody, but I like this one too.
• Susan K from Bloomfield, NjLove Barbra !! And Bee Gees!
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 31st 1980, "Woman In Love" by Barbra Streisand entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #49; and on October 19th, 1980 it peaked at #1 {for 3 weeks} and spent almost a half-year on the Top 100 {24 weeks, and for 11 of those 24 weeks it was on the Top 10}...
  On October 5th, 1980 it also reached #1 {for 5 weeks} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart {plus it peaked at #1 in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom}...
  On the Top 100; the song spent 5 weeks at #2; for 2 weeks before becoming #1 and then for 3 weeks after leaving the top spot...
  Barbara Joan Streisand will celebrate her 73rd birthday this coming April 24th {2015}.
• Harry from Sunnyvale, CaThis is one of my favorite songs by anyone, and I like many Streisand songs. This song is the reason why she was and still is so popular. But this particular one is so deeply heartfelt and I think the most emotional of any she's sung. It maybe was written by Andy Gibb, but it's Streisand's wonderfully mature and feminine vocalization that makes it gret
• Paul from Detroit, MiJohn, get a grip. Are you some sort of freaked out, male feminist? This was a beautiful song, and so WHAT, if she was a "Woman In Love". Should a woman be ashamed of that?
• Jennie from California, CaA great song. I love it.
• John from Brisbane, United StatesBarbra must have been very embarrassed when this stupid song went to number one.Barbra does not wail about lost love.Barbra is a strong woman who knows what she wants.Hail ms Streisand the -
• Cindy from Tempe, AzI'm not embarrassed to admit I don't like this song, but I absolutely love 'Guilty' and think it's the best song Barry Gibb wrote for another artist.
• Andy from Arlington, VaI'm very embarassed to admit I like this song.

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