meaning of gordon lightfoot if you could read my mind
If You Could Read My Mind Lightfoot has cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics,[2] saying they came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer.[3] At the request of his daughter, Ingrid, he performs the lyrics with a slight change now: the line "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that you lack" is altered to "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that we lack." He has said in an interview that the difficulty with writing songs inspired by personal stories is that there is not always the emotional distance and clarity to make lyrical improvements such as the one his daughter suggested.[4]
If I Had My Life to Live Over The song is now a recognized standard, recorded by many artists.
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Eubie Blake If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.