| I've Been This Way Before | |
| Cover: | Ive_been_this_way_before_cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Neil Diamond |
| Album: | Serenade |
| B-Side: | Reggae Strut |
| Released: | 1974 (US) |
| Genre: | Soft rock |
| Length: | 3:08 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Tom Catalano |
| Prev Title: | Longfellow Serenade |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Next Title: | The Last Picasso |
| Next Year: | 1975 |
"I've Been This Way Before" is a song written and performed by Neil Diamond. It was released as the second single from Diamond's 1974 album Serenade. "I've Been This Way Before" was Neil Diamond's third No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart and also peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1]
Billboard magazine stated that the song was "stronger lyrically" than recent Neil Diamond songs and also praised the vocal performance and the arrangement.[2] Cash Box said, "This moody ballad gleams," describing, "A simple piano opening builds lovingly into a rich mix of strings and things with Diamond's voice rising confidently above it all."[3]