In A Very Unusual Way

I am quite enamored of the song- A Very Unusual Way. This song is not new, but it is new to me. It is from the 1982 musical Nine (not to be confused with 9, District 9 or Cloud 9…all playing in theatres now). Although I grew up as a fierce little musical theatre queen, I got off that jag in the 1980s around the time of Miss Saigon & Cats (now & forever). I have rarely returned to musicals since, although I loved the movie version of Chicago & Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge is a favorite. A Very Unusual Way has music & lyrics by Maury Yeston. I am really looking forward to the movie version of Nine. The trailer is jaw dropping amazing & what a cast! I don’t how this song with the haunting melody & obliquitous lyrics ever flew passed my listening radar. I heard it first on a Barbra Streisand concert that aired on TV this spring. Except for her Broadway albums in the 1990s, I had been off the Barbra thing since Stony End, but the concert was impressive & I can not get this song out of my head. It speaks to me in a personal & very unusual way.



In a very unusual way one time I needed you.
In a very unusual way you were my friend.
Maybe it lasted a day, maybe it lasted an hour.
But, somehow it will never end.

In a very unusual way I think I'm in love with you.
In a very unusual way I want to cry.
Something inside me goes week,
Something inside me surrenders.
& you're the reason why,
You're the reason why

You don't know what you do to me,
You don't have a clue.
You can't tell what its like to be me looking at you.
It scares me so, that I can hardly speak.

In a very unusual way, I owe what I am to you.
Though at times it appears I won't stay, I never go.
Special to me in my life,
Since the first day that I met you.
How could I ever forget you,
Once you had touched my soul?
In a very unusual way,
You've made me whole.

In a very unusual way Oh,
I owe what I am to you
What you have done for me.

Though at times it appears I won't stay, I never go.
Must always be there
Special to me in my life, Special to me,
Since the first day that I met you.
Since that first day.

How could I ever forget you
Once you had touched my soul?
In a very unusual way
You've made me whole.