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I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
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 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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Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone.
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I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
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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.
Gordon Lightfoot
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
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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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There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase I'll give it five! The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.
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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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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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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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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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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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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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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Gordon Lightfoot
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
Gordon Lightfoot
It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
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