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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Lightfoot
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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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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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There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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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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Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
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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 can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
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