WHERE DO YOU START
(Johnny Mandel (m) / Alan Bergman (l) / Marilyn Bergman (l) 1988)

Barbra Streisand (Orchestra Version) 2009

Also sung by:

Alan Bergman 2007 (at 81 years old)
Tony Bennett 2004
Jack Jones
Rosemary Clooney 1989
Leslie Uggams
Kate Reid
Sophie Milman
Kenny Rankin
Michael Feinstein 1988
Nancy LaMott
Trish Hatley
Susannah McCorkle
Holly Shelton
Carla Helmbrecht
Shirley Horn 1992
Kenny Coleman
Marlena Shaw
Jacqui Naylor
Marina Xavier
Shyla Zoet
Karen Oberlin 2000
Chris Bennett
Opie Bellas
Kitty Margolis
Parry Ray
Ellen Robinson
Eli Fordyce
Tokeli
Heather Cairncross
et al. (many)


Where do you start
How do you separate the present from the past
How do you deal with all the things you thought would last, that didn't last
With bits of memories scattered here and there
I look around and don't know where to start.

Which books are yours
Which tapes and dreams belong to you and which are mine
Our lives are tangled like the branches of a vine, that intertwine
So many habits that we'll have to break
And yesterday's we'll have to take apart.

One day there'll be a song or something in the air again
To catch me by surprise and you'll be there again
A moment in what might have been.

Where do you start
Do you allow yourself a little time to cry
Or do you close your eyes and kiss it all goodbye, I guess you try
And though I don't know where and don't know when
I'll find myself in love again
I promise there will always be, a little place no one will see
A tiny part deep in my heart, that stays in love with you.



(Transcribed by David Story - July 2013)