Favorite Gordon Lightfoot song???
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My favorite album has to be "Summer Side of Life" yet my favorite songs are those less popular and never played live.
I love 'Looking at the Rain' as it had to be written especially for me. I found out one Friday that a girl I had been seeing on a regular basis decided to get married that weekend and I wasn't the groom! Without reason I got into my car that night and drove with no destination in mind. It was pouring rain and the wipers seemed to keep rhythm to Gord's music on the cassette. In 'Looking at the Rain' Gord sings about "a picture frame of lace" which only then I realized was a wedding veil! The entire song summed up my situation and emotions. I made it back home after the weekend and as they say, "time heals everything"...
My other favorite has to be 'Whispers of the North' which, in my opinion, is written as a chant. It is best sung to the rhythmic motion of canoe paddles cutting into the water of some remote northern river. I have canoed some of the same canoe routes that Gordon has and anyone who does cannot help but be inspired by the rugged beauty of this wonderful country of ours!
After that, name any other song and it will also be my favorite.
Yuri Amatnieks
"the river is the melody, the sky is the refrain"
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