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.

HOUSE OF FLOWERS

JOHNNY MATHIS

SONGWRITER: HYMAN ARLUCK & TRUMAN STRECKFUS

COUNTRY: USA

ALBUM: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE

LABEL: MERCURY

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1964

The Wonderful World of Make Believe is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on July 10, 1964, and described by Greg Adams of Allmusic, who wrote, "The theme is fantasy, from imaginary locations ('Camelot', 'Shangri-La') to fanciful yearnings ('I'm Always Chasing Rainbows', 'When You Wish Upon a Star') to vague, idealized realms ('Beyond the Sea', 'Beyond the Blue Horizon')."

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated July 25, 1964, and reached number 75 during its 10 weeks there.

This project was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums in a two-CD set by Sony Music Entertainment on August 28, 2012, the other album being Mathis's previous studio LP, Tender Is the Night. The Wonderful World of Make Believe was also included in Sony's Mathis box set The Complete Global Albums Collection, which was released on November 17, 2014.

My house is made of flowers

The warm winds carpet the floor

Whenever theres spring showers

I open the rainbow door

The frog, the toad, the turtle

All make my home their home

My curtains are crape mottle

And the firefly flies neath my dome

I’ve never had money

And I’ll never need none

The moon is my lamp

And my clock is the sun

Find more lyrics at

My homes a home

For all those things

What grows, what flies, what sings

If it all sounds tempting

And it do you entice

I show to the heavens

That it do make it nice

Wont you come live with me

I’d come live with me

If I were you, if I were you.

MEET ME IN MY DREAMS TONIGHT

BRIAN WILSON

SONGWRITERS: WILSON, ANDY PALEY & ANDY DEAN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: BRIAN WILSON

LABEL: WARNER BROS. RECORDS

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE POP

YEAR: 1988

Brian Wilson is the debut studio album by Brian Wilson released in July 1988 on Sire Records. It was voted one of the best albums of 1988 by NME, and as part of its acclaim, garnered the nickname "Pet Sounds'88" among some critics. The album has since been reissued on several formats with bonus tracks, and cited by some as a standout in Wilson's solo oeuvre.

The album, which cost $1 million to produce, was the first written and produced by Wilson since The Beach Boys Love You(1977). Working with an array of collaborators including his therapist Eugene Landy, Wilson accordingly themed Brian Wilson around love and spirituality exemplified by its lead single "Love and Mercy". Although the album's sessions were contentious, where some participants demanded a progressive artistic statement versus conventional pop songs, nearly a quarter of the LP is devoted to "Rio Grande", a piece which was intended to rekindle Wilson's experimental drive from the mid-1960s and early 1970s.

Two follow-ups were planned but ultimately discarded: Sweet Insanity(1991), co-produced with Landy, and an unfinished 1990s album, co-produced with Andy Paley. Wilson would not release a second solo album of new original material until Imagination(1998).

Tonight I'll drive home all alone

And maybe later we'll talk on the phone

But it takes a little more to get me through

If we can't get together here's what we'll do

Hold on

And meet me in my dreams tonight

Baby close your eyes and hold on tight

Sleep in my arms until the mornin' light

Meet me in my dreams tonight

I've been waitin' all day

Now I won't let nothin' stand in my way

'Cause I just can't wait to see your face

At the usual time and the usual place

Hold on

And meet me in my dreams tonight

Baby close your eyes and hold on tight

Sleep in my arms until the mornin' light

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Oh lullabye (bye) baby (bye)

Goodnight (bye) baby (bye)

Oh lullabye (bye) baby (bye)

Goodnight (bye) baby (bye)

La-hullabye (bye) baby (bye)

Goodnight (bye) baby (bye)

Gotta get together gotta really try

There's a wonderland waitin' for you an I

Hold on hold on

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Baby close your eyes and hold on tight

Sleep in my arms until the mornin' light

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Baby close your eyes and hold on tight

Sleep in my arms until the mornin' light

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Baby close your eyes and hold on tight

Sleep in my arms until the mornin' light

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Meet me in my dreams tonight

Baby close your eyes and hold on tight

Sleep in my arms until the mornin' light.

BREATH

FAITH HILL

COMPOSERS: BENTLEY STEPHANIE KAY & LAMAR MARY HOLLADAY 

COUNTRY: USA

ALBUM: BREATH

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC

YEAR: 1999

"BREATH" IS A SONG WRITTEN BY STEPHANIE BENTLEY and HOLLY LAMAR and recorded by American COUNTRY MUSIC artist FAITH HILL. It was released in October 1999 as the first single from her fourth album of the SAME NAME. "Breathe" became Hill's seventh number one on the HOT COUNTRY SONGS chart in the US. The song spent six weeks at number one on the BILLBOARD HOT COUNTRY SONGS chart in December 1999 and January 2000. It also peaked at number 2 on the BILLBOARD HOT 100 chart in April 2000. Despite not peaking at number one, it was the NUMBER ONE SINGLE OF 2000, becoming only the second single at the time to top the year end charts despite never spending a week at the top of the weekly charts and marking the first time this had happened in 35 years.

Audrey Faith McGraw (née Perry; born September 21, 1967), known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer and record producer. She is one of the most successful country artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Hill is married to American singer Tim McGraw, with whom she has recorded several duets.

Hill's first two albums, Take Me as I Am(1993) and It Matters to Me (1995), were major successes and placed a combined three number ones on Billboard's country charts. She then achieved mainstream and crossover success with her next two albums, Faith(1998) and Breathe(1999). Faith spawned her first international success in early 1998, "This Kiss", while Breathe became one of the best-selling country albums of all time, led by the huge crossover success of the songs "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me". It had massive sales worldwide and earned Hill three Grammy Awards.

In 2001, she recorded "There You'll Be" for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack and it became an international success and her best-selling single in Europe. Hill's next two albums, Cry(2002) and Fireflies(2005), were both commercial successes; the former spawned another crossover single, "Cry", which won Hill a Grammy Award, and the latter produced the singles "Mississippi Girl" and "Like We Never Loved at All", which earned her another Grammy Award.

Hill has won five Grammy Awards, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, six American Music Awards, and several other awards. Her Soul2Soul II Tour 2006 with McGraw became the highest-grossing country tour of all time. In 2001, she was named one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies Home Journal. In 2009, Billboard named her as the No. 1 Adult Contemporary artist of the 2000s decade and also as the 39th best artist. From 2007 to 2012, Hill was the voice of NBC Sunday Night Football's intro song. In 2019, Hill will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I can feel the magic floating in the air

Being with you gets me that way

I watch the sunlight dance across your face and I've

Never been this swept away

All my thoughts just seem to settle on the breeze

When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms

The whole world just fades away

The only thing I hear

Is the beating of your heart

'Cause I can feel you breathe

It's washing over me

Suddenly I'm melting into you

There's nothing left to prove

Baby all we need is just to be

Caught up in the touch

The slow and steady rush

Baby, isn't that the way that love's supposed to be

I can feel you breathe

Just breathe

In a way I know my heart is waking up

As all the walls come tumbling down

I'm closer than I've ever felt before

And I know

And you know

There's no need for words right now

'Cause I can feel you breathe

It's washing over me

Suddenly I'm melting into you

There's nothing left to prove

Baby all we need is just to be

Caught up in the touch

The slow and steady rush

Baby, isn't that the way that love's supposed to be

I can feel you breathe

Just breathe

Caught up in the touch

The slow and steady rush

Baby, isn't that the way that love's supposed to be

I can feel you breathe

Just breathe

I can feel the magic floating in the air

Being with you gets me that way.