If you could read my mind by Gordon Lightfoot w/ lyrics
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2011
- I never thought I could act this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelings gone
And I just can't get it back. ~ Gordon Lightfoot 
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So So powerful still after all these years. Who's still moved by it in 2024
me
Shook
I walk away like a movie star....I head this song in 75...now I am 70...
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Who gets burned in a three way script...enter number 2...
In all these years the effect is still the same. Absolutely beautiful.
No other song can make one's heart both sing, soar, and shatter all at once. I grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot because my parents loved his music, this is my favorite song of his. I heard this song yesterday at the local grocery store on the speakers, I almost lost it right there in produce. Such a gorgeous song.
👍 You don't hear songs like this nowadays ! Old school forever 😎
Same.
And well said. 💜
And, I confess, I have lost it a time or 2 in the produce section. 😁
I guess they probably think I'm so touched by their zucchini that it moves me to tears 😛
(hehe, oh well)
Such a beautiful song.
I have always loved it, also since I was little. Our parents must have been listening to similar music.
I still have to say, there has never been a better era for music than the late 60's early 70's ("peace hippy" era) not before or since.
(Except for maybe like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and the like)
I think more music has come from that era than any other that has the power to reach in and touch the soul the way so much music has from that time. Even all the best music since then is usually inspired or influenced by music and artists from that era.
Leave it to pain and tragedy (like the Vietnam War) to bring out the most beautiful art.
What an amazing song. I wear radio ear protectors while cutting the grass and I heard it yesterday, and I welled up. This is what music should do.
You can just feel the pain he is feeling. So sad a song, yet so beautiful
Ditto!
Relationships are the most precious, frustrating, rewarding, complicated things on this planet.
...when I was also going thru a divorce...this song knocked me to my knees.
@@rocksandoil2241 yeah this song did that to me as well. I was driving to my Mom's to visit with my daughter, and I had to pull my truck over and just break down.
This song always makes me want to cry about everything and nothing all at once
==everything and nothing all at once== yes, well put
@@marks1417 I've lost relationship with my daughter. I hum and cry to this song on a regular basis.
Every couple of months I email this song to her, as it expresses my feelings like no other.
Thank you!!! My feelings exactly 😢❤😊
You said it so simply and true.
I'm late 50's, and this song was on the radio in the USA for most of my early childhood, whenever I would ride in the car with my parents. One thing this song shows, which is rare today, is the state of mind of a caring man who is essentially a gentleman dealing with his feelings of lost love in a constructive, healing way. The one he loves is never degraded or blamed, and there is no anger. It is as graceful as it is hauntingly beautiful. In fact, if there were any real feelings left in the heart of his lover, hearing this would surely get her to fall in love all over again and, if not, then the love wasn't meant to be, and therefore this musical love poem becomes an emotional release and cleansing for the one still broken. When the words and musical emotions are taken together, they are literally a blueprint for how to handle the loss of love in a dignified and meaningful way, always leaving hope for your own romantic future in the gracefulness of the delivery of the message, which is ultimately respectful of human emotion and therefore uplifting, despite a melancholy mood. It was good for me to hear this as a child, and still helps me even now, encouraging me to go on searching for the real thing despite never having found it. Gordon's song is enough to keep me believing, and where there is hope, there is life. Thank you, Mr. Lightfoot, for a true lifetime gift.
You have a good way with words my friend and they are felt here in South Wales UK 🏴👍
I love your post, and agree. It is Melancholy but healing and uplifting at the same time.
Wow...what an amazing comment, beautiful.
He is alive and well with his music
Your narrative is as beautiful & emotional as the song.
RIP GORDON LIGHTFOOT. Your music is legendary. You will be missed. 🙁
Didnt know he hás passed away.
Im só sorry
How did he passed away!
@@marilia920 He died May 1st of last year of “natural causes”. He was 84.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Couldn't agree with you more...very true.
I agree100% A creative genius! His storytelling musically is amazing!!!!!!
So true
And the saddest. It's absolutely genius.
Yes
This song is one of the few rare songs that will go on forever .. it’s beyond a classic , it’s timeless ..
I read once where Bob Dylan said when he listens to Gordon Lightfoot songs he doesn't want them to end what a hell of a compliment that is
Damn right about That 👍👌✌️✌️🎶🎶
Yr mind has a problem.Go back to the reality.
What u did is wrong.Who tell u to have the fear of meeting.
If u r afraid of everything so give up yr post let others have the capacity to dominate n in- fluence the employees
employees n go to live with the toxics in the love hell.
@@myphuonghuynhthi1423 what are you talking about it makes zero sense...
@@Eman-wj8gq I agree....Read this 3 times and I couldn't make any sense of it either...Geez....
@@mzubu yeah he never replied back... bummer I think he/she might have replied to the wrong comment.
I first heard this song when I was 21. I am now 68 and have heard it thousands of times. I listen to it every night when I go to bed. My favorite song of all time. I know of no other song that makes me feel the way this one does, sad, melencholy, lonely, but somehow content.
I am now 70 years old as a German -Canadian and I still love his music.
I remember when this song came out, I was a tiny kid in my car seat, and | would sing it to the back of my mom"s seat. I was maybe 3 or 4...but I knew every word, and I knew those feelings were all for her. Sad, but content in knowing I would be set free, that one day the feeling would finally be gone, and I wouldn't get it back.
Sad but content, Yes I know.💙
Listening to WABC 77AM📻
1970's
Now 2019💃...🎵still touches my ❤💃
Bo Youngblood I’m 62 and been racking my brains trying to remember this song, that goodness for Google. Found it.
Bo Youngblood You’re a lyricist! 👍
The regret of losing someone you never should have let go of in the first place.
Did you get your person back??? Oh how I hope for the fairy tale ending for you!!💜
I never let go. Not ever. He pushed me away. Twenty-five years later I still can’t read his mind about the real reason he did it. It seems he is never going to gather enough courage to tell me; and that will always hurt me deeply.
Guys, HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
That's what happened to me.
How hauntingly beautiful. I remember hearing this as a young woman and not appreciating the words or the meaning behind them. I've never really been successful in love but i can say I have loved no matter how painful its always turned out. I wish for everyone who comes across this post to find the love that makes you want to get up in the morning. But never accept someone that doesn't bring out all the good things out in you. You deserve the very best!!
Well said Rachel*Jayne. Wishing you happiness.
Beautifully said ❤
I hope the blessing you speak would come into my life
@@davidkyle-fu3vl Hold the line Brother Do the best u can
@@stephennewcombe452 thank you. The struggle I have is I am, as of today, 30 years into a loveless marriage that likely needs to end. I cannot endure much more of the crazy false accusations
Tear jerker, hopefully there will be someone who can write and sing songs like this again. RIP Gordon
❤
Such a beautiful song.
I had to play it on reading that Gordon had passed.
This song is part of the soundtrack of my life.
Thank you for sharing your talent with us all.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot.
Yes, indeed. 😢
@@sandrawoolwine5061 Entertainers like Gordon Lightfoot remain timeless to us.
Their voices don't age in the albums they cut, and nor do their faces on album covers.
They then pass away with old age leaving us with their music as we contemplate our own mortality.
Regards from Sydney.
@@elisolomon8741 lll
Beautiful and sad at the same time, really touches the heart.
Crying and listening to Gordon sing to me one last time. Rest in Peace Gordon. Your music will live in our hearts forever.
The lyric where he says “I’m just tryin’ to understand the feeling that you LEFT” is actually “I’m just tryin’ to understand the feeling that you lack”. His daughter later made him change the lyric while performing it live. This song was recorded in California somewhere between September and December of 1969. It was originally released on the album “Sit Down Young Stranger”, later to be re-titled “If You Could Read My Mind” released April of 1970. It’s very personal, and it’s sad, but in some cases relationships can’t be repaired, especially when both parties are not on the same page, and one cares more than the other. In many cases pride can get in the way, and destroy relationships. It’s unfortunately true, and a hard pill 💊 to swallow....
I’m with a woman 👩🏼 that I love that means the world 🌎 to me now, and it took so many years to find her.... She’s truly my soulmate. There isn’t anything that I wouldn’t sacrifice to help make her life better because she loves me for “me”.... Flaws and all.
I thought it was lack. Thank you!
@@jesseepalmer5405 It's all good, man. Been there...
Joe Reich I’m very glad joe and to this day I hope it’s so. I lost my relationship 13 years and this song is on the other foot. I loved her so very very much and she left me with our dog that knows me as daddy. I cry all the time. I’m not abusing or on drugs and I worked very hard to give her what I had even though she made very little. I think about her and puppy all the time and want to die cause my life ended. I’m trying very hard to continue and slowly exceeding almost a year. Guess I know cause this song belongs to my LEE. Not me.
Jim Gross - Jim, I have been to hell and back in past relationships. It took me finally giving up on looking for “the one”, in order to find my soulmate. I started talking to my lady December of 2016, and I had realized that I had lost “me”, and “my sense of humor”. I know it’s harder than some guys may think, because some can just be clearly insensitive to there woman’s feelings, and they care more about themselves than anything else. take things for granted. I treated women exactly how I expected to be treated myself. I was burned badly in past relationships, and I fully understand what it feels like to lose EVERYTHING, and stand there with my jaw dropped and in shock over what I had gone through. There is hope for a much better life with a woman that would fully appreciate and be on the same page as you. Yes, I had lost my dog-child, too, but I did end up with her, when my ex-wife decided to go out with a guy who dislikes dogs. You need to see yourself as being worthy of a much better life with a woman who will love you for yourself. You deserve that. You deserve to be happy, in a great relationship. DON’T GIVE UP HOPE.... Something wonderful may be just around the corner for you, too.... Sooner than you think.
God Bless you Jim.... May HE put the best woman you could ever wish to have in your life now.... 🙂
He told me that he wrote Early Moning Rain in a storage shed in the rain.
I remember when this song was played on the radio when I was a child. I would listen to it through my pillow at night. It was as though he was singing to me. I was being physically abused by my mom's boyfriend which didn't bother me half as much as the feeling of betrayal I had for my beloved mom who had been my world before then. This was so cathartic just listening and connecting to another soul, that I felt renewed and strengthened to deal with anything. RIP Mr. Lightfoot. You are with the angels now.
you are with the angels
one of the greatest songs ever written...
waytomordor truth
waytomordor u
E. Reyes ?.?.?
Victoria Evidently hi
Victoria Evidently hi... Have a bless day
This song is so touching. Loveless and lonely he tries to find where his feelings went, even though he still is in love with her.
same as me with my first wife ,,,,,,love her with all my heart,,,,,hate her with all my soul
After many years, I think he is trying to figure out not where his feelings for her went but her feelings for him (the feelings that you lack).
@@protoville4251 I've pondered that myself. But, I really think he means the two of them. "I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone..." I think he's including himself as well and that neither of the two feel it anymore. Could be wrong, though.
I think he doesn’t love her in that way anymore, just like a friend.
I think he was in love with being in love and he’s at the place where he’s ready for the long run.
I AM 58 years old ..n this song transports me right back to when i was 8 years old ...50 years ago....this is one of my songs ...a song that wakens me frm sleep..my husband could not fall asleep sometimes n used to get to sleep while radio was playing the whole nite... n i used to listen to his heartbeat as this song was playing ...now ive been widowed fo 11 years ...n i remember those moments...❤❤❤
"I can never be set free as long as I'm a ghost you cannot see." This song has been with me since college days and I am 60 now. What a beautiful arrangement, what fabulous lyrics. Everytime I listen to this song, I get some new insight.
beautiful song so relaxing
Thats the exact moment the song got me.
@@BeckaBex81 Me Too! You are Lovely.
My lover is 73 and loves it from college, too💛
I was hoping that Chris Cornell would cover this awesome song before he... You know.
Thank God for my mother! Not only was she a very intelligent woman she had the presence of mind to introduce us to beautiful music. I love, love this song.
Just heard the sad news of this icon’s passing today. 🥲 This has been one of my favorite songs for 50 years 😍 I was an international student, who stayed in an almost empty college dormitory during Christmas break my freshman year. It was eerily quiet and lonely. Thankfully, some friends were kind enough to leave their favorite records with me. Among them was a Gordon Lightfoot LP. I almost wore it out playing this song over and over again. It helped get me through not just the crushing isolation of the deserted dormitory, but many challenging times since. Thank you, Gordon. RIP, see you down the road. 🙏🏼
💔🕯🙏🏼
I’m 55 and can remember this song from my childhood. It’s always been beautiful, but now that I understand the song, I can’t help but tear up. I’m happily married, but it still makes me cry. I love this song!
A True Artist ! RIP Gordon Lightfoot ! "The ending IS just too hard to take."
I used to play this song with Gordon lightfoot. I did the rhythm for him and we were going to call our band, either leadfoot rhythm or lightfoot rhythm. I used to call him "Gordo the Magnificent" . Long time ago
He was in a class by himself during a time of pretty solid songwriting. Master Artist. Intelligent and civilized during a time of drugged hell with it. Salute!
What a great honor, to play with Gordon, it seems to me. He is such a humble and great personality .......When did you play with him? Fred from Holland
@@MrLoek2000 it was in the eighties. He is really down to earth dude.He let me play his martin some too ! That was a nice guitar. A d-28 martin.
Glad to hear your priceless comments! Congrats for taking part in this masterpiece!
Bob stop that!!
Snicker
Songs today don't tell stories like this...70's were special.
Gordon is such an incurable romantic. This song makes me cry.
me too
Me three !
He is famous for some not for all.
His music is good but paroles for sentimental girls.
Ooh me to.
I haven't Google Gordon Lightfoot yet come but I wonder if he was an Aquarian. We are just hopelessly Romantics!
"And I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see" is a tremendous line that says so much. Describes my life and so many Ladies I have loved near and far but they never see me. Great song.
Do u mean you left those women?
As a young women in her 20s never grasped the meaning of this beautiful song. I loved Gordon Lightfoot music but its a love story of loving so hard abd being so hurt that the love just dies and you can't get it back. It actually happened to me and looking back after finding my soul mate uts worth it all. ❤🎶🎵
Amen. You took the words right out of my mind. Loving so hard and being so hurt that the love dies and I just can't get it back. 💙
@bostongirl555 I think most do. I was just so lucky to find love. Since I posted that, my soulmate passed away. And I'm broken. It's fresh. It just hurts. He had been battling cancer for 3 years and was doing so good. I honestly don't know what happened. But it hurts so bad. He'll never ever be out of my heart. RIP my love, Douglas Derry. Forever in my heart. 🙏💔⚓️
This, to me, is a perfect song.
Excellently written, arranged, performed, and produced.
Just beautiful!
Devastating break up song. Probably the saddest one I know of.
BericDonderrian Try 'Two out of three ain't bad'.
Yes, Meatloaf is evocative, but Lightfoot is more heart-rending
BericDonderrian Try 'Black' by Pearl Jam.
BericDonderrian Also try 'Just another day without you'. Certainly not as dark as 'Black' or as mature as Lightfoot, but adds misplaced hope, and with it, desperation.
+BericDonderrian Try "we are the cheeky girls " you will break up then.
Brilliant song. Lyrics are just amazing and I love the guitar playing. Just masterful. This song is a masterpiece.
He was a legend. RIP Gordon.
I guess I had mother that taught me well. She was not that unhappy when my dad died.
She perked up quickly when the checks kept coming in.
I asked her about that she said "I earned it."
Then I had to quit college and get drafted.
While she enjoyed the annuity and life insurance.
So any break ups after that were not traumatic experiences for me.
Regretful, but not traumatic.
If I had not been active in the Navy. I probably would missed her funeral.
I have not spoken to the Ex in 30 years.
I wonder if the current spousal unit will miss me like Lightfoot did?
When I am dead and gone?
@@warrenpuckett4203. Sounds like the novel, that a drugstore sells, interesting. And movie script, it relates. Ty
I first heard this song on old AM clock radio in my bed room as a teenager. Became a Gordon Lightfoot fan from that point on. Saw him at least ten times in concert and have all his albums on vinyl. He is a classic story teller. Gordon wrote this song while his first marriage was falling apart. You can feel his pain in the lyrics. My wife is not the fan that I am but as this song came on once I explained the back story behind the lyrics. She then teared up while listening to it. I think everyone who has gone through a painful breakup can relate to it.
I think this is Gordon's signature song. In 1970, when it first played on the radio, I immediately fell in love with it. I was only six years old, at the time, and its charm still hasn't diminished. I consider it a "perfect" song, where not one note is unappreciated, and I don't tire of multiple listens. Years later, I debated on whether I should spend $15 on "Gord's Gold," just to get this one song. It was one of the most satisfying purchases of music, for me. Only one song (out of 22) didn't thrill me, but all the rest were great!
Shout out to my uncle! He Was on point with this Piece! Much love to all.
We are proud of your uncle...just 👌
Same last name? 🤔🙂
I love Uncle Gordons music. Saw him in concert in 2019, I think. In a Louisana casino. I was singing right along with him. My wife thought I was crazy...but hey, she bought the tickets, and I aint crazy.
Condolences.
He was an amazing artist. We shall not see his like again. We lost one of the greats today.
This is the most beautiful and sad song ever. Wonderful voice too. I almost can't bear to listen to it, if you know what I mean.
Chris Cornell would've been an ultimate cover singing & guitar solo.
i do know what you mean...
I do. It makes one's heart both soar, sing, and shatter all at the same time. It is God's gift to music through His instrument Gordon Lightfoot.
@@briankoski817 I was just thinking about Chris today, and lamenting the fact that these IMMENSELY gifted people can feel so lost that they take their own lives. Gordon Lightfoot died today. I played this song for my 33 year-old son, and I just sat here and sobbed.
@@fri814
I just heard that Gordon Lightfoot just died .. Damn! That dude was way-cool.
Truly an ultimate classic, ultimate original ballad. It should be on everyone's short list of all time great music.
it absolutely is!!! Before my time but alas people of my generation must go back in time if we want to listen to music that came straight from a heart and soul...there is no genuine feeling in the so~called music out today...it's quite disgusting and shameful....we are meant to be progressing, instead humanity as a whole in the area of music is definitely regressing! SMH
Rest in paradise Mr. Lightfoot, you'll truly be missed 😢
Indeed
you want someone so bad and it will never happen...........one of the worst feelings in the world.........
mrmedallis true👈😎
mrmedallis
So very true..
Too young and immature at the time.
Song reminds me of someone..who no longer remembers me.
Greetings from Australia.
Repeat what he said to but no judgement coz no1 is perfact.
Just astonished with his saying n act .
As a friend he she knows his problem but try to help him get out of darkness.
He said God n Lord r strong powerful why must he played drama with his friend for many years.That 's the problem his friend no understand.
If he is God or Lord must be clever n wise for solution n settled in 1 second
Work , house, honor dipped by toxics....
There r camera everywhere witness of the toxic's trap
No hurt no pain or suffering here just 1 question.
Is this man ( hero God or Lord ) normal n lucid or not?
The reality to help n not harmfulness.
Don't hide n nourish bad things give him a hand or help him destroy virus corona , codvid .ok?
This is the first time I've heard this song; I just want to play it over & over...it's so soulful & deeply moving, sad, yet hopeful somehow. Beautiful song by Gordon Lightfoot "If you could read my mind."
Hi Leslie💐💐💐
I was 18 when this song became a hit in 1970...To this day I remember the words by heart..Sing it on my karaoke as one of my favorites
I love to sing karaoke, but this song hits me way too hard to sing without getting all teary-eyed.
I was 22.
He will always live on in the memories of those who hear his music. Rest in peace, Gordon.
Always reminds me of my mom. She was always very hostile and hard to talk to. After she died of cancer when she was 53 I happened to hear this song in a movie I was watching. It crushed me. I knew it was about not being able to communicate with someone and connect with them. RIP mom sorry that we never really knew each other and hope you are happy in heaven now.
Your Mother loved you, as much as she could, as much as she could love herself.
She, was a Gift.
And by your writing, you are living the lesson.
Be Love, Be Present, Be You ...
@@markblu9494 Thank you for your kind words! I needed to hear this.
You already heard it, just Validation from a complete stranger who felt your message.
@@markblu9494 That is a good point! Thank you again! : )
@@carriemindplsable i felt this way also about my father. "enter number two" made me think of my step dad. ugh it hurt to understand this song in a different way then a romantic song. it is so much about life isnt it? my father died of cancer also. he was a complicated man. i feel like mark said above they loved the best they knew how. (your mom and my dad and so many other parents). again complete stranger commenting. i dont think i ever have commented on any videos. but felt lead to this time. peace be with you.
This song is timeless.
yes I totally agree
I came home from the desert hell and this played on speakers in the airport. I was pretty messed up.
I have now been married for 24 years.
I would never have made it back without her and to hear this today brought tears to my eyes. I remember the day and the long journey back...and the woman who stood by me and walked with me on that trip back from the darkness.
I am very, VERY blessed to have her.
❤
Always my favorite from Gordon. Brings a tear to my eye every time. We are young and foolish, older and wiser, but you just cant get it back. What's lost is lost!
Only Lost... Until it returns; Quiet Gift of Our Love Crazed God, He; Forever Hearing and Mingling in Endearing Affairs of His Humble People!
Love; in no greater a Shadow have I lived, With Spirit Holy of our Divinely Awesome ‘Cupid’!
God IS love; our Link to that purely Awesome Relationship... Who, to Know better; your; our, Unique Soulmate!
Trust; believe and remember to be thankful! Always share your everlasting experience!
Thank goodness for sweet memories.
What a beautiful song! Brings out the despair that people feel when they have lost someone they love
Hi Sylvia💐💐
Yes it does
Maybe the best song ever describing the heartache and confusion and unanswered questions at the end of a relationship. Sheer genius!
Whenever I hear this wonderful song I get tears in my eyes. Great slideshow as well, thank you.
I don’t know why this song always makes me cry, but I just can’t seem to stop listening to it year after year. Now it’s on my Alexa (Amazon Playlist.) I’m 58 years old and I’ve been listening to it every since I was approximately 10 years old. My late mom had a beautiful voice, and would sing it to me. I’ve been singing it to my 21 year old daughter, and now to my six month old grandson. Best song ever!
Saddened this morning upon hearing your departure from us. You beautiful songs and music will forever live
R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot. 🎸🎶😢
This song reminds me of my precious mom who died 9/2020...I love you mom & I miss you....See you in Heaven one day.
The most beautiful song ever written. RIP, Gordon.
I just read that you passed away. I hope you made it to Heaven. This was my favorite song with High School memories.
His powerful story telling is by far one of the best in music The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is his signature piece!!!
Wow!!! This song is a true Master Piece, because it has all the elements that make it great! everything in it just works in harmony and it’s perfect! The Lyrics are descriptive yet metaphoric, they move like a poem, they touch my soul, his vocals and tone are perfect, the melody is beautiful and nostalgic, the arrangements are so detailed and elegant, every time I listen to it, it moves me deeply. Thank you Gordon for creating this amazing master piece!
A devastating, but hauntingly beautiful, love ballad.
Eric Tuten Gorgeous! Now if only I could understand the lyrics. LOL
Eric Tuten If you listen to it, it isn't really a love ballad, it's a ballad to a love which has died. That said, it is beautiful and evocative and I've loved this song since I was a kid and didn't have any idea what it was about, but just loved the sound of it.
@@cletus1n3 Your are correct that it's about love that has died, but in my opinion it's still a love balad because it expresses a depth of sadness about losing love that he apparently once felt deeply. Either way, we both agree that the song evokes feeling and memories; and for me it's a feeling the source which I can't quite understand and grasp.
💯 facts
one of the most beautiful songs ever written.....
I have sung along everytime this song comes on the radio for the last 40 years. The words are so beautifully put together you cant help but sing along. In the last few months, going though a divorce, the words and melody take on a whole new meaning. Now when singing along, it brings a tear and deep feelings like never before. I can appreciate the lyrics even more now.
One of the most beautiful songs ever
still brings tears and chills
RIP GL Thank You!! God Bless you on your journey, your music will live on forever!!
💘💖💝💓💕❣❤🔥💔🙏🌹🎼🎶
As a child I heard him sing this at Red Rocks in Colorado.
Red Rocks amphitheater is beyond big. The one place you can go as an adult which actually looks bigger than it did when you were a child.
When Gordon sang this song, the entire audience sang softly along with him, word for word. Can you imagine it? It's one of my most profound memories.
I remember listening-to Gordon Lightfoot in the early 1970s, His Music was so Beautiful. Rest in Peace. 🙏
Rest in peace, Gordon! You warmed my heart and saved my life so many times with your words and melodies.
The world is significantly more of an empty place without you. ;_;
if there ever was a song that would remembered for being heartbreaking and melodic for no other reason than just being written and composed then here ya have it! get choked up every single time i listen to this masterpiece!
A very sad song but I love it ...It touch your heart way down inside. ..
Indeed
Gordon Lightfoot: great song-writer, great lyricist, great story teller, a wonderful talent
My mom just shared this with me and....I have goosebumps ❤ BEAUTIFUL 😍
Hi Sarah💐💐
I have loved this song since my childhood, it makes me cry every time.
I think I will never stop playing this.
It's a perfect song, and I can never listen to it too much.
Had to come listen to this beautiful music after hearing Mr. Lightfoot has left this plane of existence today.
I miss you dearly Scott. I think of you so often and just wish there could have been a way we could have saved you man. Love you man ❤️❤️❤️❤️
RIP Gordon Lightfoot. Beautiful music. ❤🎸🎤🎹🎻
Generation x and the early ones remember hearing Gord's music constantly on AM radio and then FM in the latter 60s. all through the 70s and early 80s! A timepiece in a literal sense!
I love this song. It's amazing how strong you can feel about someone, and, over time, how it dissipates. Almost as if he or her are totally different people. This retrospective is so good. I don't know if it is a good or bad thing to go back to that feeling but regardless...you cannot.
I love this song. The lyrics are full of meaning. It makes me remember when my relationship ended with the person I still love.
50 years ago this month, I met the only woman I have ever loved, and lost because of my own naivety and stupidity. Not a day goes by.
One of the most beautiful songs ever. RIP, Sir.
Thank You Gordon For All The Yr.s Of Joy And Sorrow,Song's. Rest Well,Maybe 1 Day We Will Meet.
I never get tired listening to this song. TRULY a classic!
+Craig Specht Me neither! :)
And me to..a true classic that can take you back...
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A timeless classic that you just can't get enough of love it.
I actually lived this song!
RIP Gordon. You were truly a poet troubadour. Thank you.
Probably one of the best songs ever written and SUNG.
brilliant.....very sad.....I guess sometimes love just ain't enough.....
beautiful song with lyrics many people can relate to. Reminds me of a a very special lady I fell deeply in love with and made me realise that I'd never been in love before. sadly we got lost somewhere along the way, even today 12 years later I miss her so much!!!!!
Ryan CARSON that's right, it's not...
I disagree,love doesn't have to be perfect or enough.You love the best way possible family,friends,neighbors and even coworkers.
Is anything ever enough ??????
Friendship can be real. Love is there until something better comes along. Love stinks
This song really hits the heart. and brings so many emotions. sad and happy at the same time.
This is and always will be one of my all time faves, such a beautiful song, sung beautifully by such an underrated singer/songwriter... Gordon Lightfoot is in my opinion one of the very best...Thanks for the post... Terry
Such a timeless and emotional song right there, a true piece of storytelling. I'm still crushed over the passing of Gordon Lightfoot, this one hits close to home I grew up listening to this wonderful timeless storyteller. His music took me back and still takes me back to a place I thought long dead, back to simpler times growing up in the 70s and 80s camping on the beach as a kid listening to Gordon Lightfoot on my radio at night my golden retriever laying beside me on my bed, just listening to the waves roll in and out. Gordon you will be truly missed by so many of your fans and also an entire nation. Thank you Mr Lightfoot for all the memories of my youth and for your timeless songs that will be in our hearts forever. I go to light a candle in your memory and most likely shed some more tears RIP Gordon😢❤🌹
My favorite song in the world that I have listened to for over 40 years and now I am living it .Now this song has a new meaning to it that I never knew
This is the best reply I have ever read! I remember hearing this and singing along made no sense so naive to think that we're going to get Prince Charming!🤴💔 we were so young back then... as a young girl I sang this song so many times didn't understand until later in life 🥲🤗😞🥺😢😭
@@lisar6510. Thank you my Dear Lisa how sad that he is no longer with us here on earth but I believe he is better off no longer suffering
I miss being a small child, my mother, still in her youth, driving home from my Grandmother's house and music from this era playing on a simple stereo. I am so thankful for the memories but I haven't found something to replace that joy in my heart anymore. She's been gone for 15 years now and I knew the night she passed that she very well might be the last person I had that truely cared about me and loved me. It's a bitter pill to swallow and accept and it does make life challenging at times when all I'd like to do is call her up and talk with her over the phone right now. I made a ton of mistakes over my life but I still hold that similar soul as her, despite my demons. I'm sorry if I let you down, mother. You raised me properly and I was defiant at times. I pray that you now understand what all I was dealing with and why I most likely strayed from the example that you set for me. Neither one of us were perfect and often forgotten by others but we kept going forward. To say that I miss you is an understatement, to say the least but I wouldn't have wanted anyone else as a mother. I truely thank God for you and I hope that you are able to know that to be true.
I cry every time I hear this . So why do I keep playing it over and over ?
Because it speaks to your soul
Bcuz 'Something' is
missing in your life??
RIP Gordon , you left a great legacy of great songs that will span the ages 🙏❤️
He always painted his lyrics on my heart!
A most beautiful song - wonderful vocals and the strings blend so brilliantly..... Thank you Gordon Lightfoot...
Brilliant song writer. You can feel his pain. He was very underrated artist.
Take em back to my youth. That voice, that song gets inside you.
I first heard this song at the end of the movie "Wonderland." Then I listened to it more and read the lyrics.
As a fan of many songs and more modern bands, I have to admit that Gordon Lightfoot has created a sad, positive, beautiful masterpiece! This song literally could be the theme song for my loved ones. The ones I lost, pushed away, and left me. More than any other, this resonates with me.
Hey Darko7743. So u saw Wonderland? I lived those years when Johnny "Wad" Holmes was out here doing his thing. I remember that part of the movie. Perfect song for that ending, wasn't it? Your comment was on point. I just left this chick that just wasn't acting 🎬 right. Enough was enough. I sent her daughter $50, I let the girl know why I was bouncing, then sent her 2 songs. This one and "Trying to Get That Feeling Again" by Barry Manilow. She texted me, "Why?" Then I blocked her. Anyway, you seem like a young dude with a very good ear for music. Makes me feel bad for those who can hear the beauty and meanings in the music. Take care brother, and never stop listening.
Why did i do this yo myself...anyone else NOT able to stop crying? I don’t even feel like this about anyone right now. But it’s still just so sad.
Music like this has an unbelievable power to bring out feelings and emotions that are buried in ones heart and soul.
So yes, I get it.
Do you not wish that today's music could capture those buried emotions?
@@tobyfriend5589 terrific comment Toby
i wish they still made song like this as it makes people feel, something i find is missing now
All the time as I struggle to right the ship
I will say what I did was wrong and I’m trying to salvage my relationship with her but I feel it just isn’t the same and I will never have that same love and affection ever again from her and I’m dying inside so slowly and heart broke….I don’t know how much of an effort is left in me…time heals but I’m not sure about this….I cry alone a lot about it
Very sad song and a friend of mine died four days ago and he could hear this very song I miss you :'( will not forget you dear forever
memories love my heart hurts for you, it was one of the favorites for the love of my life that died in my arms in our bed Today would be his 64th Birthday. So much love he took with him, it’s been almost 4 years and I ache to be held by him again. 😢💔
@@maryscott8929 I'm so very sorry. I know the feeling.
I hope this song can comfort you, stay strong.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot
What a legacy never forgotten.
I’m glad I grew up hearing beautiful music like this.. still brings chills to me..
So beautifully painful. Truth. Unrequited. They've moved on, and are happy. Alas, you're here listening not quite understanding why. When do you forget? When do YOU move on? So terrible. The story is over, but you're repeating it. Tears fall, and one more night you go to sleep, knowing that perfect person is gone, and you were the one to shed them because of your inability to deal with your feelings. Tears of a clown. Ty for listening.
Right there with you. All we got is one day at a time though. 🌻