100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #69: Gordon Lightfoot, If You Could Read My Mind

Often called “Canada’s Greatest Songwriter” (not sure if the members of Rush have an opinion on that), Lightfoot has been going for decades, and is still going at the time of writing.  If You Could Read My Mind is full of sublime melancholy.  As you might expect, Lightfoot wrote this during the breakup of his first marriage, and his ability to express his feelings with such exacting clarity demands respect.  If one must listen to love songs, then one should listen to love songs which explore impressions that many might have, but which few, I suspect, can articulate so well.  Heartbreaking stuff *sigh*

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