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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 17
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot
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Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
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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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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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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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Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
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When love is true there is no truer occupation.
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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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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
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I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
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I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
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She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
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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 I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
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