They are all outstanding, but 3 really jump to the forefront of my Gordon Lightfoot psyche. Those three songs so deeply touch me, enthrall my emotional senses, reach down into my bare being and expose it only as Gordon Lightfoot's pure lyricistic magnificence can, that merely talking about these psychological works of art bring water to my eyes and force me to swallow.
The poetic masterpieces are, in random order, Sit Down Young Stranger, Someone To Believe In, and Summer Side of Life.
I was so touched and honoured at being able to actually share some of the feeling about those songs personally with Gord, and tell him of the barrels and barrels of tears I had shed while those songs bathed me in the fluidity of his masterful lyrics and crying guitar.
He sang those songs for me. He knew not who I was, he knew not the crushing pain I had lived and was living, yet somehow he knew to put those words to music and make them find me.
What's most important though, is now he knows, and forever we shall be be like some kind of long distance brothers, caring for and deeeply respecting one another's reason for being in this world, even though our eyes have never even met. they never have to.
Thank you Gord. Thank you for your music. But more importantly, thank you for letting me tell you how much it has done in keeping me alive so I could grow and watch my family grow too.
Love, your brother in spirit as only you and I can know, Mike
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