Today’s song is brought to you courtesy of our friend Keith, who planted numerous earworms yesterday with his fun post titled, “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then – an encore post”. Check it out if you haven’t already seen it! And now, for today’s offering …
Written by Lightfoot and released in 1970, this song was inspired by the breakup of his first marriage. In the liner notes of his boxed set Songbook, he describes it as “A song about the failure of marriage.”
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…
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