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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
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The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
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I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.
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Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
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I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
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It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of.
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.
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If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
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