NEIL DIAMOND - LONG HARD CLIMB

LONG HARD CLIMB

NEIL DIAMOND

SONGWRITER: NEIL DIAMOND, TOM HENSLEY & ALAN LINDGREN

COUNTRY: USA

ALBUM: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1988

The Best Years of Our Lives is the eighteenth studio album by Neil Diamond. It was released by Columbia Records in 1988 and reached number 46 on the Billboard 200 chart, number 42 on the UK album chart, and number 92 on the Australian chart. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on February 16, 1989. In his review of The Best Years of Our Lives music critic Bryan Buss referred to it as "a strong entry in Diamond's oeuvre" and as "an album that is romantic and sentimental without being manipulative".

Three singles from the album, the title track, "This Time", and "Baby Can I Hold You" reached numbers 7, 9, and 28, respectively on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. With 38 songs in the Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, Diamond has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. On the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, he has had ten No. 1 singles: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight".

Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Additionally, he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011 he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2018, Diamond received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

I wake every morning to find you there

My lover still

I am deep in amazement

That you still care, you always will

My life depends on you

To always be there, always be mine

Know you can make that long hard climb

How many others have come and gone

Along the way?

Count them

All of them seem to be movin' on

But me, I've stayed the same

And I still want you

I give you my heart, give you my soul

I give it all because, I know

It's a long hard climb

It's a long hard climb, and I know it

And I hope that it's not too late

And I know that

I'm lost if I should hesitate

Yes, I do believe in forever

It's a place that lover's find

And I know that we're both gonna make

That long hard climb

Late in the evening, there's the two of us

Alone and still

Dreamers caring to strongly to give it up

We never will

'Cause our life depends on two

You give me your heart

I give you my soul

We'll give it all because we know it's

A long hard climb

And I wanted to say that I love you

And I hope that it's not too late

But I know that we're lost

If we should hesitate

And I do believe in forever

It's a place that lover's find

And I know that we're both gonna make

That long hard climb

Yes I know that we can make it

'Cause there's no way that you could fake it

Yes together we're both gonna make

That long hard climb.