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AZroute74 · 02-08-2004, 01:53 AM

I had to re-start this thread because for some reason it doesn't come up right on my computer,and I can't read it. I think the question originally posted, paraphrased as close as I can get it, was "Have you ever been feeling really down, and then a Gordon Lightfoot song made you choke up or cry?"

Well, I've been trying to use his music to KEEP from crying. Divorce is painful, and this was one man I thought wouldn't leave me. But he did, after only a year of marriage, basically because his sister didn't like me. And today I've been really, really low. Maybe I *need* a good cry.

So I plug in Disk 2 of Songbook, and I get "Cobwebs and Dust," "Too Much To Lose," "That Same Old Obsession," and "Can't Depend on Love," all on one disk, not to mention "If You Could Read My Mind."

The thing is, it ain't happening. I am too far gone. I'm frozen. It may be that I am in my mother's house, and I have never been able to show my feelings around family members. My children, 18 and 20, have never seen me cry. But I have to unfreeze myself. Can anyone recommend a GL tune that's guaranteed to break open the dam?

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"Pickin' up the pieces of my sweet, shattered dream..."

02-08-2004, 01:53 AM	#1
AZroute74 Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Louisville, KY, USA Posts: 80	I had to re-start this thread because for some reason it doesn't come up right on my computer,and I can't read it. I think the question originally posted, paraphrased as close as I can get it, was "Have you ever been feeling really down, and then a Gordon Lightfoot song made you choke up or cry?" Well, I've been trying to use his music to KEEP from crying. Divorce is painful, and this was one man I thought wouldn't leave me. But he did, after only a year of marriage, basically because his sister didn't like me. And today I've been really, really low. Maybe I need a good cry. So I plug in Disk 2 of Songbook, and I get "Cobwebs and Dust," "Too Much To Lose," "That Same Old Obsession," and "Can't Depend on Love," all on one disk, not to mention "If You Could Read My Mind." The thing is, it ain't happening. I am too far gone. I'm frozen. It may be that I am in my mother's house, and I have never been able to show my feelings around family members. My children, 18 and 20, have never seen me cry. But I have to unfreeze myself. Can anyone recommend a GL tune that's guaranteed to break open the dam? ------------------ "Pickin' up the pieces of my sweet, shattered dream..."