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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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...❤❤❤
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!!
@@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
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 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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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 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.
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!
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.
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. 🙏🏼
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.
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.... 🙂
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.
"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.
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!! 💘💖💝💓💕❣❤🔥💔🙏🌹🎼🎶
"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.
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.
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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. ❤🎶🎵
@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. 🙏💔⚓️
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!
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?
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.
@@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 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.
incredible song, say's everything i was trying to say to someone, how sad these songs are no longer the main stay of the radio airwaves, we oldies are the lucky ones we grew up with these, thankyou for the music
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!
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😢❤🌹
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!
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."
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
5-1-2023, heard of his passing today, came to listen to my favorite song of his. Reminds me of my youth, my father would listen when my parents were getting divorced. Sad but brings me the content feeling of my youth. Rest in peace Mr Lightfoot. Thank you for the music.❤
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!
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!
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!
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.
Rest in Power Mr Lightfoot. Your music has brought me many years of happiness. Thank you for leaving a part of your light for the rest of us to draw on when needed.
What an incredible talent to be able to write the words to this song with such a beautiful tune all topped off with an incredible voice. RIP Mr Lightfoot.
I've always loved this song. It's so beautiful. It makes me feel joy and sadness simultaneously. Lightfoot has a real talent for writing songs like this. What a great song!
I'm fully prepared to go whenever I'm taken.""I've been almost dead a couple times, once almost for real ... I have more incentive to continue now because I feel I'm on borrowed time, in terms of age." We'll miss you forever Gordon. RIP, 1938-2023.
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.
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 ...
@@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.
RIP Lightfoot Gordon, Finally the chain upon your feet are removed... you are Free. Old music are far better than what we hear now because the melody, message and voice really blends perfectly. God bless 🙏🙂
Sadly I lost my husband 7 months ago, 46 years ago as I was falling in love with him, we used to listen to his Gordon Lightfoot cassette, I also fell in love with Gordon's beautiful words and music
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
This is the only song that can move me in a way no other song I’ve heard in my life can make me feel sad, a sense of comfort all at once! This is definitely on my short list of great music…
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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!
This song is one of the few rare songs that will go on forever .. it’s beyond a classic , it’s timeless ..
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.
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.
people are terrible investments. now i invest in me.
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 just read that you passed away. I hope you made it to Heaven. This was my favorite song with High School memories.
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
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Crying and listening to Gordon sing to me one last time. Rest in Peace Gordon. Your music will live in our hearts forever.
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! 👍
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
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
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
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.
Beautiful and sad at the same time, really touches the heart.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot (May 1, 2023). Thank you, Ed, for spreading this world treasure to new generations.
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.
@@lucymarquez4379 💄
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This song reaches me now like no other. Beautiful poignant and truthful.
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!
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.
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. 🙏🏼
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Had to come listen to this beautiful music after hearing Mr. Lightfoot has left this plane of existence today.
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.
Saddened this morning upon hearing your departure from us. You beautiful songs and music will forever live
R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot. 🎸🎶😢
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 👍👌✌️✌️🎶🎶
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@@mzubu yeah he never replied back... bummer I think he/she might have replied to the wrong comment.
one of the greatest songs ever written...
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"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?
This, to me, is a perfect song.
Excellently written, arranged, performed, and produced.
Just beautiful!
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!!
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"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.
I’m glad I grew up hearing beautiful music like this.. still brings chills to me..
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.
Maybe the best song ever describing the heartache and confusion and unanswered questions at the end of a relationship. Sheer genius!
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. 🙏💔⚓️
A True Artist ! RIP Gordon Lightfoot ! "The ending IS just too hard to take."
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!
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.
Whenever I hear this wonderful song I get tears in my eyes. Great slideshow as well, thank you.
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.
Just an absolute perfect song.
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.
incredible song, say's everything i was trying to say to someone, how sad these songs are no longer the main stay of the radio airwaves, we oldies are the lucky ones we grew up with these, thankyou for the music
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!
I'm in my mid 30's and I remember my mom playing this song all the time as a child. I just heard it in a movie and had to add it to my playlist❤
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.
R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot, I was blessed with seeing your concert in Montreal in August 2022. ♥
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😢❤🌹
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!
Songs today don't tell stories like this...70's were special.
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💐💐💐
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
Gordon Lightfoot: great song-writer, great lyricist, great story teller, a wonderful talent
5-1-2023, heard of his passing today, came to listen to my favorite song of his. Reminds me of my youth, my father would listen when my parents were getting divorced. Sad but brings me the content feeling of my youth. Rest in peace Mr Lightfoot. Thank you for the music.❤
He will always live on in the memories of those who hear his music. Rest in peace, Gordon.
That extra harmony underneath certain parts is PERFECT!
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!
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!
What a beautiful song! Brings out the despair that people feel when they have lost someone they love
Hi Sylvia💐💐
Yes it does
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.
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.
Gordon Lighfoot rip.
Beautiful love song.
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!
Thanks Gordon Lightfoot, always will love this song, RIP, greetz from Indonesia!
one of the most beautiful songs ever written.....
You had beautiful music. You will be missed.
Rest in Power Mr Lightfoot. Your music has brought me many years of happiness. Thank you for leaving a part of your light for the rest of us to draw on when needed.
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.
This song is timeless.
yes I totally agree
I remember listening-to Gordon Lightfoot in the early 1970s, His Music was so Beautiful. Rest in Peace. 🙏
What an incredible talent to be able to write the words to this song with such a beautiful tune all topped off with an incredible voice. RIP Mr Lightfoot.
I've always loved this song. It's so beautiful. It makes me feel joy and sadness simultaneously. Lightfoot has a real talent for writing songs like this. What a great song!
The words are so poetic, the music so beautiful, his voice so haunting. The perfect song, if there is such a thing.
One of the greatest story tellers of his era. RIP Gordon. Thanks for the great music!
I'm fully prepared to go whenever I'm taken.""I've been almost dead a couple times, once almost for real ... I have more incentive to continue now because I feel I'm on borrowed time, in terms of age."
We'll miss you forever Gordon. RIP, 1938-2023.
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.
Gordon, you have given us some of the most beautiful songs ever written and sung. Thanks for the memories!! 😇❤🤗
What a Great song from a great story teller 💖
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.
The most beautiful song ever written. RIP, Gordon.
I have loved this song since my childhood, it makes me cry every time.
RIP Mr. Lightfoot. So many stories and memories from a great troubadour. You will be missed.
RIP Gordon , you left a great legacy of great songs that will span the ages 🙏❤️
Thank you Gordon, for sharing your beautiful talent with the world. Love this song, it gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. RIP
RIP Gordon. You were truly a poet troubadour. Thank you.
My mom just shared this with me and....I have goosebumps ❤ BEAUTIFUL 😍
Hi Sarah💐💐
Definitely one of the most beautiful song ever written...but the melody, the music leaves me breathless every time I listen to it!
RIP Lightfoot Gordon, Finally the chain upon your feet are removed... you are Free.
Old music are far better than what we hear now because the melody, message and voice really blends perfectly. God bless 🙏🙂
One of the most beautiful songs ever. RIP, Sir.
Sadly I lost my husband 7 months ago, 46 years ago as I was falling in love with him, we used to listen to his Gordon Lightfoot cassette, I also fell in love with Gordon's beautiful words and music
Rest in paradise Mr. Lightfoot, you'll truly be missed 😢
Indeed
This song really hits the heart. and brings so many emotions. sad and happy at the same time.
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
...all the best on your big journey, Gordon. The world will miss you
Probably one of the best songs ever written and SUNG.
A most beautiful song - wonderful vocals and the strings blend so brilliantly..... Thank you Gordon Lightfoot...
This is the only song that can move me in a way no other song I’ve heard in my life can make me feel sad, a sense of comfort all at once! This is definitely on my short list of great music…
The feeling is gone, and l just can’t get it back!
You killed it. Sad for us both now.