He's always been and will continue to be a HERO of mine! Thank you, Neil, for all the love expressed so beautifully, discovered in my teenage years but still the background music of my life! Condolences to all who knew and loved him. ❤️❤️❤️
“Love Will Keep Us Together”
Often dismissed as irrelevant once your words and songs built a wall I could safely lean back on, when my heart soared or fell in a hole.
And how many times, over those years my teen angst was expressed better than I could, just exactly as I would - as if I actually did!
How did you know what I felt when marriage ended? Betrayal covered my defeated soul with guilt – blame, why didn’t I see?
You knew what to say to comfort me – to pick me up and show me it wasn’t all my fault – not all… Accept. Step forward holding hands.
My children needed me whole not a heart hurt so bad it couldn’t share the love anymore… fill the holes, make the road straight again.
It took many years but my 1st love found my name on the net living in another country alone believing I’d had my chance...
Somehow deep down, your words worked, unconsciously, even when I rejected the idea of love, you kept telling me, I could try to love again.
I stepped into your time machine Neil – eager to walk, feel the rain. Two of us, no longer playing ‘Solitaire' But loved like your ‘Calendar Girl’.
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A lovely tribute to the great Neil Sedaka.
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Thanks, Liz.
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