Where Do You Start? Lyrics

Two of my nearest and dearest friends
Also happen to be lyricists
Lucky for me, that I just love so many of their songs
I think I′ve recorded 50 of them (52) huh?
52?! Jay!
They wrote "The Way We Were" with Marvin Hamlisch
They wrote "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Neil Diamond
"The Score to Yentl" with Michel Legrand
And they are here tonight
Marylin, Alan Bergman

This song talks about dealing with the bittersweet end of a relationship
A marriage probably, yeah
Well, they lived together, they definitely lived together

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, 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 can see
A tiny part deep in my heart
That stays in love with you