First time hearing Gordon Lightfoot " If You Could Read My Mind" Reaction | Asia and BJ
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One of Lightfoot's most personal songs, this is about the breakup of his first marriage - a common theme in many of his songs. In the liner notes of his boxed set Songbook, he describes it as "A song about the failure of marriage."
Written in 1969, the song has been recorded more than 100 times, first by Lightfoot himself for Sit Down Young Stranger. The album was not a commercial success, but after the song reached #5 on the US singles chart in 1971, the album was renamed after the song and re-released, reaching #12 in the pop charts
Other recordings include those by Carroll Baker, Glen Campbell, The Bells, Johnny Mathis, Liza Minelli, Barbra Streisand and Andy Williams. Instrumental arrangements have been recorded by Herb Alpert, John Arpin, James Last, The Boss Brass and others.
Can't forget the Stars on 54 version!
Very interesting Metal Mark...I suspect you are a metal guy, who can appreciate the tremendous talents of Gordon Lightfoot. ...I am with ya brother! I grew up with artists like GL, I don't believe he has a bad song...mostly about the life of a "Hobo" or about the Sea, or about trains, a life of freedom, and no commitments....An excellent songwriter. ....But then there is my Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest side...I guess I am saying, that I like Gordo and Sabbath and everything in between....but I do not like rap
Gordon is a Canadian treasure. Bob Dylan considers him one of his favourite songwriters, and was the one who inducted him into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. His songs have been covered by Dylan, Streisand, Johnny Cash and more. He has written more than 250 songs. His rabbit hole is deep. This song is very personal about the breakup and then divorce from his first wife.
I know a lot of Gordo songs, they are all good. Every GL song is is interesting musically and lyrically from beginning to end...he is one of my favorites ( note the American spelling "favorites"), he is a treasure Cheryl
My favorite Canadian import Neil Young, close second Gordon and for fun Martin Short.
He feels like a ghost in their relationship, in that she no longer sees him. While she is expecting a storybook romance. Neither has needs that are being met. So they are lost going through the motions. A beautiful song and one of my favorites. ✌️
That's the best description of this song I've heard yet. It makes pefect sense. Many thanks!
It's sad because we all have been this ghost
This performance is a diamond in a world of pebbles and stones. Gordon Lightfoot was one of a kind. R.I.P.
A brilliant song, musically and lyrically. The setup of books and movies trying to describe a broken relationship. Then the line, " ...but for now, love, let's be real. "
Great description!
He's describing all the fairy tale endings and how they don't meet reality. Well Done James.
Metaphor city! Beautiful.
Remember this song so well, sad but sincere. Nothing worse than being with someone who doesn't feel the same. Thanks Asia and BJ.
" Nothing worse than being with someone who doesn't feel the same " You said it BKM. Story of my life, again and again...57 now and still alone with only regrets and loss to show for my life.
@@philosopher0076 Hey philosopher 007, your not alone buddy, your not alone.
Truth right here.
I consider this song a masterpiece. I was 11 when this came out and just fell in love with the hauntingly beautiful arrangement, lyrics and vocals. This is one of those songs where you close your eyes and let it put you in a trance. Gordon did us all a great favor by giving us this gem! 😎🎶❤
I was 13 when it came out and thought virtually the same as you. My parents were breaking up at the time, so lyrically I came to understand the devastating nature of lost love despite not having endured it myself. I still feel a sense of immense sadness whenever I hear it, however it remains one of my favorite compositions - one I’d take to the “desert island” of songs I’d need if stranded somewhere without companionship. In my mind, it’s about as perfect as a song gets.
The entire song revolves around the line "Heroes often fail".
And that makes it one of the best written songs that has ever existed! 💯
Gordon Lightfoot is a poet and storyteller, who puts verse to melody. His stories are about life and love, tragedy and triumph and the celebration of humanity.
This is a break up song. Whether we are on the receiving end or we are the one breaking up, both are devastating, and it’s hard to admit it to yourself or to the other person. It’s feeling like you have failed.
I hope you try other songs. He is truly a Canadian treasure.
"In a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains around my feet, you know that ghost is me - and I won't ever be set free, as long as I'm a ghost that you can see".. 40 years later, it still chokes me up, and I am bound by my love for her. Even though I know I'm the one who f'ed it up. It totally hits home, if you lived it.
I don’t know where we went wrong but the feelings gone and I just can’t get it back…those words break my heart every time I hear them.
He is still touring, I just seen him May 21st at the Lerner theater in Elkhart Indiana over 40 years in the making. Bought the tickets over 2 years ago but because of covid it took that long before he could finally make it there. Remember he's 83, it was a great show he couldn't quite hold a note as long as his younger days but he still did a great job and the band was fantastic!! So I would suggest if you get a chance if he comes anywhere close to you, go see him. I had a great seats sixth row center. It was worth every penny!! And well worth the wait.
Probably the best song writers in his-story. This song was written in 1969
This song made me figure out what a "three-way script" is. Beautiful song. Keep the singer/songwriters from that era coming!
Love Gordon. His acoustic guitar work is first class, and the imagery in his lyrics is too. Not too many can describe a scenario, thoughts, or feelings as well as he does. Just the right words in just the right place. Great post.
Wife here...Love this Gordon Lightfoot classic!!..Beautiful and such poetic lyrics..Thanks for the Amazing insight and selection..!!..
Reminds me of my divorce. People get out of synch and you can find it's impossible to find the right words to show them that you're still there, trying to make things work, while they treat you like a stranger, as your soul slowly dies, a piece at a time, until eventually there's nothing left to fight for.
I grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot. "Sundown" is one of my all-time favorite songs.
Gordon Lightfoot was a poet set to music.
I purchased this album when it was first released. This is one of my all time favorites. Still hear it to this day. A true balladeer, wonderful! Thank you for this ✌️
Beautiful song relating our fragile humanity . Music taught so many of us to process our feelings. Orchestrated beautifully
The audio production of this recording is phenomenal with two guitars and the incredible strings arrangement.
Gordon, fellow 🇨🇦, 💙 his 🎶🎶 my whole life
I love Gordon Lightfoot. This song got me through a few breakups.
Awww I just LOVE this music❤️🎶🥰 Give me the 60's, 70's & 80's all dayyy!!! I'm here for it!!! ❤️❤️
You can’t do a retrospective on 70s music without including this gem.
I saw him this past febuary in my hometown of Champaign Illinois. 1 of the greatness song writers and acoustic guitar players. This is 1 of my strongest memories of a.m. radio outta Chicago Illinois, WLS and this is 1 of the songs that really made me listen to the lyrics and taught me what great music is and took my mind on a journey! Its why music has had such a stranglehold on me in the greatest of ways... music is my world, my sanctuary... my love is music and im married to melody.
Love this song and Gordon Lightfoot’s voice. I actually still have the 45 of this record in my basement. Classic!
A fantastic and underrated singer/songwriter - from Canada. Great voice. Other good songs include: Carefree Highway, Sundown, Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald (story song about the true shipwreck in Nov 1975 on Lake Superior), and Beautiful. quite a few others.
Don’t think he’s ever been underrated.
'Softly she comes' is such a romantic sweet song and 'Beautiful' is another romantic lovely song that didnt get a lot of recognotion but is masterfull in its lysic and melody. The song 'Whispers of the North' brought me out of a death spiral in a hospital after a motorcycle accident 40 years ago by just having a Canadian Loon whistle at the begining that brought me back to reality from the encroaching dark. I had been a moose hunter in the far north and the sound was so carved into my memory that it brought me back from the brink. The story is in the comments of the video of that song if you are curious.
Check out his song The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald . It will give you chills. The Edmond Fitzgerald was a freighter that sank in a horrible storm on Lake Superior, I think it was 1975 . It sank so fast they did not get any radio communication out and all 29 members died. The bodies are still down there -frozen . In the song, Lightfoot sings the Lake never gives up its dead.
Gordon has been making music for nearly 60 years. His discography is vast, You could do a song of his every day for a YEAR and not get thru it all. I will reccomend Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Minstrel of the Dawn, Cricle of Steel, and Don Quixote.
Don Quixote is such an underrated song. I think in some ways that it may be his best song lyrically.
@@taun856 It is, but he has so many songs! It's really hard to choose!
One of his most personal songs based on the break up his first marriage ( written in 1969), this theme was used as late as 1982.
This has always been my favorite Gordon Lightfoot song...and he has so many great songs/hits.
He's one of the GOATs and it's great that Gordon is still performing.
Gordon Lightfoot is a troubador, his primary instrument being the acoustic guitar. His music is all about relationships, reminiscing (Old Dan's Records; Did She Mention My Name?) and natural surroundings (Song For A Winter's Night; Summertime Dream). Most of his music is a sweet and melancholy. Country-side, forests, lakes, creeks, rustic cabins. The closest thng to urban I've heard him compose is the tempestuous "Black Day in July." If you listen to more of his music you will be drawn in.
I adore this man...one of the best lines of all time from "Sundown" "I can see her lying back in her satin dress, in a room where you do what you don't confess" Gordon is a story teller for the ages. Sublime.
What was amazing of bands of 60's and 70's is they where great story tellers true poets.❤️❤️❤️❤️
In the song are the lyrics "And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just trying to understand
The feelings that 'you' lack". He's saying she has lost her feelings for him, not that he has lost his feelings for her. He's saying her feelings for him are gone, and he doesn't know how to get them back. At least that is my take on this song based on the lyrics I quoted above.
That's pretty good!
One of the most perfect songs recorded in folk/rock. Not a wrong note anywhere in this song. Even in divorce, you can still have strong feelings in your heart even when your mind is telling you, you can't continue. The classic battle between your heart and head. Nice reaction, thanks.
I kept singing "and the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back." After about 2 months of that, I realized the relationship I was in needed to be over. My subconscious playing of that song in my head was telling me what I wasn't yet prepared to tell myself out loud.
A Feel Good Smooth Soul Groove,, The Blackbyrds "Walking In Rhythm"
...Classic...Truth!!
Sundown is another good tune from Gordon.
A heart wrenching song about the love lost between two people married but cannot work out what they need to fix it, if the marriage could be fixed at all. Gordon Lightfoot is a great singer-songwriter who can have a great upbeat song such as "Alberta Bound," a touching love song such as "Beautiful" or even the emotional pain of a cheating lover in "The Circle is Small." For the latter song, I recommend the version found on the "Endless Wire" album. He sings so convincing with the pain in his voice.
When was that song RELEASED-1970's= the GREATEST DECADE OF MUSIC 🎶
R.I.P. Gordon. May the Lord grant you eternal rest.
1970. The first song whose lyrics I memorized.
A MUST HEAR Uplifting Classic,, Bobby Bloom "Montego Bay"...Nuff Said.
This just brought back memories of when I was a child. ❤️
A great Canadian singer and songwriter. Rest in peace Gordon.
This has always been in my top 10 favorite songs ever. Great reaction. Thanks!
I'm a picker and a songwriter..I've been a Gordon Lightfoot fan for almost half a century..Been to three of his concerts over the years..Few can match his talent..Timeless Gold .....
I feel like me and BJ are always on the same page as far as lyrics touching is. To me the line “if you read between the lines you’ll see I’m just trying to understand the feelings that you lack.” Describes my relationship with my daughter. Been going on for three hours now but now she’s 18 and today I had her pick up all her stuff. All the lying manipulation. But mostly the lack of empathy and caring. And even then o could handle that (with boundaries) but despite my ex and his wife promising we’d be on the same page after a few weeks that wasn’t the case. You can’t coparent woth someone who undermines you and excuses their behavior. It’s one of the saddest days I’ve had in years. Thanks for reacting and actually listening to the lyrics ❤
Brilliant lyrics and brilliant melody.
True storytelling songwriter with a fantastic catalogue of music. I hope you decide to play more of his songs.
Had the biggest crush on this man growing up. His voice and beautiful lyrics were so romantic.
Thanks for this reaction. This is the first song I truly loved when I was very young, and it helped me recognize the many wonders that music provides. It's often not easy for men to be frank about their emotions when feelings change, and that was more true in the 60's and 70's. This song conveys the helplessness Gordon felt as his marriage dissolved and the difficulties in communicating as a relationship fails. I think Gordon wished things could have been different but he had realized his love had faded, a sucky place to be. Could you please play "Ticking" by Elton John and the video for "All the Old Heroes" by Joseph Arthur?
Crying now . This song . Those close who are now gone . What they’ve done to our country . Leave it to Gordon Lightfoot to bring it all home . R.I.P.
God this song is so gorgeous!
"You won't read that book again, because the ending's just too hard to take..."
Many great Lightfoot Songs
Gordon is just great. Sundown is my favorite by him
This was Lightfoot's first hit. The arrangement is quite different from most of his work, which is very much in the folk genre.
Great song. I think he may be talking about someone walking away from him and he can't get that feeling or love back for himself with someone else - (maybe).
It was about the breakup of his first marriage.
Such an incredible song.
BJ is a poet at heart...I saw it here and saw it in Van Morrison's Moondance. So much fun to watch him 'get it.'
This song is his best song and a classic.
One of those songs I couldn't get enough of when I heard it on the radio
One of many absolute brilliant love songs from the 1970s.Up there with the best.A real tearjerker.
Gordon Lightfoot(If You Could Read My Mind) Asia & BJ, you’ll love his "Carefree Highway"!! for song no. 4.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot.
RIP Gordon
This one is intricate enough to carry through a day. Stop me from whistling under my breath...
An absolute masterpiece! So haunting. Not over produced. Simple. Honest. Emotional.
Gordon is a lyric genius
i was a freshman or sophomore in high school when this song was happenin'. It's probly the song of his that I remember most.
A 1970's version of a " Im dumping you !" Text! Lol🤣
If we could read Asia's mind..."Okay Fool quit crying.....wtf did YOU do???Shiiiii......."
lol
I don't often cry, but this song always pulls tears. It's the we were so great, and even though you burned me with your cheating, I tried, because I love you... but wow. It's gone. Can't come back from that.
It makes you wonder sometimes what the another person is really thinking 😒🤔💕.
Gordon Lightfoot is a World Treasure.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. My kinda of folk
At the time he was one of the few people that did fairly complex stuff on a 12 string guitar
I was married for 6 years. My ex cheated 7 months into our marriage. It utterly devastated me. She apparently "reformed". But it of course started again. The last 3 years of our marriage it was truly all over but the shouting. You carry on 'cause it's economically easy. I can relate to this tune 100%. Brings tears to My eyes. RIP Gordon. And thank you.
Gordon was writing about a relationship where he did speak and share his feelings but he let the person down and they didn't believe his words, and in desperation, he wrote this song, if she could read his mind to know what was in his heart like a Spock mind-meld. That's my take.
When words aren’t enough, you sing it.
When he’s saying, “And I just can’t get it back.” he’s saying that he can’t get back the feelings that she once had for him.
The bars in this song... laid out so simply yet hits like a truck
Thanks episode of "Cold Case" for this song, that helps me get through bad days at work.
It doesn't get any better. My buddy here in Toronto interviewed him last year or 2 years ago. A true gentleman. His next door neighbour is Drake. ,lol.
Haha! Love the melodies in that song! Great reaction, Asia and BJ!
Bob Dylan's favorite songwriter ..
Millions of songs talk about falling in love, not many talk about falling out of it. It's over when you've lost it an can't get it back.
One of the greatest songs ever written by the amazing Gordon Lightfoot. RIP
Timeless song such a beautiful song....
It is amazing how this song is 50 years old, and it could have been written today. The 1970’s were loaded with timeless songs.
R.I.P. Gordon lightfoot...
If you want to hear a Very up lifting song from 1979 PLEASE try Love is the answer ..By England Dan and John Ford Coley ,THE WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR THIS SONG MORE THAN EVER ,,Enjoy
Asia: priceless,..."You best be thinking of me!" 😂
Love Gordon Lightfoot. Think this was 1969-or 1970. Please check out THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD. Real event but can't quite remember what yr was in the '70's though.
"He's stuck!"
Sums this song up perfectly in two words!
To see him perform is amazing. Live at Toronto's Massey Hall. Amazing acoustics.
A beautifully sad song. Check out to 'You don't bring me flowers' by Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand for a similar vibe. 😥