What is the saddest Lightfoot song?
Tony Wesley
and make you feel like you might be reaching for the tissue?
I have my pick but I'll hold onto it for a bit. But let me bring up my
choice for honorable mention, "If You Could Read My Mind". Gordon is
such a genius, he wrote a song about my ex-wife and me. More
impressive, he managed to do it more than a decade before I met her. I
used to buy her the Danielle Steele books as soon as they hit
paperback.
But as he wrote, "...the ending's just too hard to take."
So which song really grips *you*?
Derek
Derek
"Parking is such sweet sorrow."
--Herb Caen
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again in his concerts.
Wondering....why was the title changed from "On the T.V.", which is
what I heard in a performance many,many moons ago.
Ron M.
Jack Gillen
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"I'm Not Supposed To Care"
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"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!" --- Miles Davis
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Bru
Bru
Shirley
If There's A Reason
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Cathy Cowette
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The Last Time I Saw Her Face.
I used to think it was about a woman who died, but it's about the death of a
relationship, and Gord says it's much like IYCRMM.
If Children Had Wings is also a tear jerker.
Cathy
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Ed Mullen
Well, my pick would probably be Looking At the Rain. But my wife's
choice would undoubtedly be Blackberry Wine. Whenever she hears it
start she cringes and says: "That is a really sad excuse for a song!" :-D
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Char
world war I've been watching and reading coverage of the events being held
in Poland and The Netherlands etc with many elderly Canadian veterans in
attendance I think of "Leaves of Grass", "The Patriot's Dream", and "The
Lost Children"...
"Their laughter filled the countryside but they'll not laugh again."
Char
we shall not forget.
Peace
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Kimberly
The acoustic version of ‘Stone Cold Sober’, certainly brings tears to my eyes, but undoubtedly ‘Looking at the Rain’ and ‘Bells of Evening’ have been my friends while shedding some tears.
Kimberly
Richard Bancroft
always felt that this was his best written song for the imagery and emotions
that it makes the listener see and feel.
The imagery of the last verse just blows me away.
"The last time she kissed my cheek
her lips were like the wilted leaves
upon the autumn covered hills
resting on the frozen ground
the seeds of love lie cold and still
beneath the battered marking stone. . .
. . . that lies forgotten."
Gets me every time! Probably because I relate this song to an intense
relationship I once had that ended just like the song. 'nuff said.
Pete
"The Last Time I Saw Her Face" is so sad, that I often avoid listening
to it, when it comes up next on one of my GL cassettes. Second saddest
would be "That Same Old Obsession".
Sad, but more bearable: "Sweet Guinevere", "Mother of a Miner's Child",
"Bells of the Evening".
"If You Could Read My Mind" gives me an optimistic good feeling instead
of a sad one.
Pete Sch., Salzburg, Austria
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on my part.
donnie
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Donnie
n1xtv
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> and make you feel like you might be reaching for the tissue?
No one has yet named "Now and Then", my choice for saddest: "Here among my
thoughts of you I find a gentle longing to be free. There must be a way out
of this crazy game we play out 'til the end."
Michael
Janice
lonesome songs I've ever heard. Listening to it always makes me feel
reflective and misty. Oddly enough, I'm one of those odd balls who love
sad/lonesome songs even better than upbeat, happy ones.
Another song that makes me a bit misty is one that I'm sure most people
wouldn't think of as sad - "Go My Way" I know many people think the narrator
is being egotistical in suggesting that his way is the only way, period. I
don't hear it that way. To me the narrator is pleading with the person he
loves, to please understand that he can not be any more than he is, pleading
for her to accept that and share the bounty the world has to offer two
people in love. Asking her to understand that the path he is on right now is
the path he must follow and hoping that she will understand and choose to
travel that path with him. And he is also accepting of, and even
encouraging, the possibility that maybe what he is able to offer isn't going
to be enough and giving her an out if that's the case. But wanting her to at
least give them a try instead of writing him off before they even start. To
me, it's another lonesome song - the narrator does not want to be lonesome
any more. I mean, "Why must I sail my ship alone without a friend?" It's a
very good question that I wish I had the answer to.
Janice
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Bill Mulrooney
Bill
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Char
You Get For Lovin' Me as chauvinistic or egotistical. Just a man who knows
his faults/limits and strengths and wants to be upfront and honest to the
one he loves. Then she can make her decision. I applaud the honesty and the
revealing of his passions that he must follow and that he knows he may be
alone anyway even while being true to himself. Bittersweet.
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TurningWorm
Ditto, also "If Children Had Wings" and "Too Late for Prayin'"
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donnie
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Melissa
AND
"Cobwebs and Dust" (I hate to leave you but leave you I must)
Damn.
Oh, and "A Tree Too Weak to Stand" (But songs of love should not be
sung where staying is not planned)
Melissa
Kimberly
Kimberly
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> Another song that makes me a bit misty is one that I'm sure most people
> wouldn't think of as sad - "Go My Way" I know many people think the narrator
> is being egotistical in suggesting that his way is the only way, period. I
> don't hear it that way. To me the narrator is pleading with the person he
> loves, to please understand that he can not be any more than he is, pleading
> for her to accept that and share the bounty the world has to offer two
> people in love. Asking her to understand that the path he is on right now is
> the path he must follow and hoping that she will understand and choose to
> travel that path with him. And he is also accepting of, and even
> encouraging, the possibility that maybe what he is able to offer isn't going
> to be enough and giving her an out if that's the case. But wanting her to at
> least give them a try instead of writing him off before they even start. To
> me, it's another lonesome song - the narrator does not want to be lonesome
> any more. I mean, "Why must I sail my ship alone without a friend?" It's a
> very good question that I wish I had the answer to.
--
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
Derek
before. Thank you.
Derek
M4R1N4
"The Last Time I Saw Her Face" is definitely a good one, but I think
that "Miguel" gets me the most ..
Marina, who decided after months of lurking to finally pipe up and join
in.
Janice
Janice
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Janice
and has been since the first time I heard it (even though it wasn't Gord
singing it - it was years before I acquired Summer Side Of Life and actually
heard his version). Other songs have equaled it in favoritism, but none has
ever surpassed it.
Janice
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Blackberry Wine
thinking about it a bit I'd have to say Shadows and She's not the Same are
right up there too.
SheilaB
"Does Your Mother Know" would rank up there, too, for me. I've noticed,
also, that for the most part the choices have come from his older songs.
Is it us or was it him?
SheilaB
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Peter T.
Welcome aboard Marina :-)
For me it has to be Looking At The Rain. Well I remember listening to
that song many times over after a girlfriend broke up with me not long
after I bought the DQ album. Not a healthy thing to do!! Another song
also comes to mind from Old Dan's Records is That Same Old Obsession and
the title song From the Shadows album has to be up there as well.
Hey now that saddest Lightfoot song is being discussed How about the
happiest Lightfoot song? Hi'Way Songs wins that one hands down for me
followed closely by Old Dan's Records.
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Warmest Regards Peter T.
Kimberly
Kimberly
Cathy Cowette
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Oh, I forgot about that one! Yes, it's a very sad story, one that always
makes me stop and listen every time I hear it.
Don't be afraid to join in, Marina. We need new people to keep this place
fresh.
Cathy
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Ed Mullen
Hey, I can be fresh with you if you want, Cathy!
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