In 1975 Grammy award winner singer songwriter Neil Sedaka released a powerful song titled The Hungry Years that touched my heart and soul and really captured some of my inner feelings growing up as a teenage in my home town of Brooklyn New York.
Incidentally Neil Sedaka recently had a street named after him who also grew up in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach area.
The story in the song is about a young couple that started out with nothing with alot of hopes and dreams and as the song states the hungry years.
As they both climbed the ladder of success in their careers they were growing farther and farther apart something was missing along the way.
And later they both realized that what they really wanted was everything they originally had and lost.
The once upon a time
The lovely long ago we didn't have a dime
Those days of me and you
We lost along the way
(WHAT A POWEFUL STATEMENT.)
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The Hungry Years Song Lyrics - Neil Sedaka
Song link http://youtu.be/avTD_-wK0jw
Girl we made it to the top
We went so high we couldn't stop
We climbed the ladder leading us nowhere
Two of us togetherBuilding castles in the air
We spun so fast we couldn't tell
The gold ring from the carousel
How could we know the ride would turn out bad
Everything we wanted Was everything we had
I miss the hungry years
The once upon a timeThe lovely long ago
We didn't have a dime
Those days of me and you
We lost along the way
How could I be so blind
Not to see the door Closing on the world
I now hunger for Looking through my tears
I miss the hungry years
We shared our daydreams one by one
Making plans was so much fun
We set our goals and reached the highest star
The things that we were after
Were much better from afar
Here we stand just me and you
With everything and nothing, too
It wasn't worth the price we had to pay
Honey take me home Let's go back to yesterday
I miss the hungry years
The once upon a time The lovely long ago
We didn't have a dime
Those days of me and you
We lost along the way
How could I be so blind Not to see the door
Closing on the world I now hunger
for Looking through my tears
I miss the hungry years
I miss the hungry years
