As If We Never Said Goodbye

It was written by Don Black, Christopher Hampton (with additional lyrics by Amy Powers), and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

A review in Salon describes Colfer's performance as turning the song "into a valentine to self-knowledge and self-improvement—and a young, gay singer's dream of treating the world as a stage and commanding it like a star.

Sam Wood from Philadelphia Inquirer found that after premiering the song, taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway adaptation of Sunset Boulevard, Streisand takes the opportunity to place "a proprietary stamp" on it.

[4] Richard Harrington from The Washington Post named "As If We Never Said Goodbye" the "standout" of Back to Broadway, writing, "Like many Lloyd Webber songs, it's maudlin, sentimental and faintly familiar - an assemblage of nostalgic reflections cannily crafted into a major statement through a melody that sweeps steadily toward its bravado finale.

Streisand-as-Desmond sings "This world's waited long enough/ I've come home at last," and it's hard not to make a connection to commercial expectations for this album.