I think there was a topic about this awhile back but I've tried and tried to find it but can't. So, I'll just restart it. What is your favorite line(s) from a Gord song?

We tried the handle of the house upon the shore and found the open door
Once inside we found a curious moonbeam doing dances on the floor

I adore this – so surreal – it conjures up beautiful, sensual images; a facet of GL’s writing integral to so many of his songs. Listening to Now And Then, I can just float and totally lose myself in the luxurious texture of his lyrics.

I'm on my second cup of coffee and I still can't face the dawn.

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

(since I can only pick one line)

"I would be happy just to hold the hands I love"

From "Song for a Winter's Night"

"Only twenty-one, she was a young girl just in from somewhere
He's playin' up in Michigan with a group they call The Intended"

Hence, my username: SomewhereupinMichigan

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
(since I can only pick one line)

Gosh! Have I just been told off? I must have been accepted as a full board member. Thanks, Bill. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Welcome back Oma, your line is my favorite line too. Must be that Deb thing again.

I remember a similar post too,might be on pg.11,5-20-03.I think I'll still have to stick to"the thing that I call living is just being satisfied",although that is just about as tough as picking a favorite G.L. song......Kinda like Lay's potato chips ya can't eat just one.......

"...and I bought you a dime diamond ring..."
great rememberances of being a kid with a crush...

"How can you find your fortune if you cannot find yourself" hit me like a ton of bricks when I was in my 20's.

Gaby,

Actually I was just being a smart ass to DMD3 but I see why you might have thought that. Sorry. And of course you're a full board member, I notice your dues are all paid up.

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

These days this would be my favorite quote. I live on a mountain top and the sound of the wind coming up the mountain always enchants and amazes me.

Whispers of the wind
I will feel it sting
I will see it rise and fall
I will hear it sing
The sound is like a song to me
It takes away the pain
The river is the melody
And sky is the refrain



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Born once - Got it right the first time. )O(

"The road is paved with moonbeams as there are faces that I knew
They all came back to haunt me, and that ain't fair to the folks like me and you"

quote:Originally posted by brink:
Welcome back Oma, your line is my favorite line too. Must be that Deb thing again.

Hi brink!

Good to be here...I read the posts a lot, but just never seem to find a topic that I have any business replying to!!! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif At least with this topic, I could reply because I KNOW my favorite GL line..."Song for a Winter's Night" is my favorite song and it contains my favorite line. I used to listen to that song off of the GG record, on an old "Early American" style console AM/FM stereo-phonograph, with my big cushy headphones (remember those?), in my bentwood rocker, in my first apartment! I listened to that song over and over...lifting the needle up and setting it down ever so carefully, so I wouldn't scratch the record. I spent many happy hours listening to that song...livingroom dark, except for my 2 kerosene lamps on the mantle, rocking on my chair, eyes closed, tethered to the stereo. Sometimes I really wish I could recapture those days!

Of course, that GG album is the famous album that I melted in the trunk of my car a short time later. I am thinking now that I must have melted it when I was 21 instead of 17, as I originally stated, because I didn't get my first apartment until I was 20...almost 21...and I know I had that record then!

It's amazing and scary how fuzzy the memory starts to get in your 40's! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
Gaby,

Actually I was just being a smart ass to DMD3 but I see why you might have thought that. Sorry. And of course you're a full board member, I notice your dues are all paid up.

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

More like dumb ass http://mysmilies.com/images/evil.gif .

quote:Originally posted by Iron:
I remember a similar post too,might be on pg.11,5-20-03.I think I'll still have to stick to"the thing that I call living is just being satisfied",although that is just about as tough as picking a favorite G.L. song......Kinda like Lay's potato chips ya can't eat just one.......
Well there was also an extensive listing on the Newsgroup last year:-
in a delightful thread in November 2002 entitled
"favorite Lightfoot songs and favorite lines?" http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...54c0bfc&rnum=1

See what you miss if you ignore the Newsgroup!!
It was so good that I even reorganised the whole lot into a digest and added it to my own lightfoot page at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...etelisting.htm


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

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Through the blue Canadian sky i'll say a prayer for the world out there.


Greetings from Victoria.

Thank You Sir John
I enjoyed that. I think Melissa Joe's husband pretty well summ'd it up..

Please kiss me gently darlin'
Where the river runs away
From the mountains in the springtime
On a blue and windy day

Other than the obvious ("Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion...") I rather like the line in "Did She Mention My Name" that goes:

Is the home team still on fire, do they still win all their games?"

Could be any sport but it reminds me of baseball.

quote:Originally posted by superiorsings:
Other than the obvious ("Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion...") I rather like the line in "Did She Mention My Name" that goes:

Is the home team still on fire, do they still win all their games?"

Could be any sport but it reminds me of baseball.

I've always thought football. I guess it's up to the listener to decide.

From "The Minstrel of the Dawn"
"Look into his shining eyes
And if you see a ghost don't be surprised"

"It'll be murder in the first degree if you ever lay your hands on me"

DMD3,

I think you might want to ask the school nurse for some Valium, again. What's up with this line ?

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

"Just think about the fool who, by his virtue, can be found / In a most unusual situation playin' jester to a clown"

- from Race Among the Ruins

Dan

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
DMD3,

I think you might want to ask the school nurse for some Valium, again. What's up with this line ?

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

I think he is being bullied by that Mexican boy.

quote:Originally posted by TheWatchman:
I think he is being bullied by that Mexican boy.


No, no,no, not bullied, just being looked at weird. Did you know me and that girl have still never said a word to each other?

My second post now, after reading replies to "incredible experience" and other posts, and now realizing that I am not an obsessive psycho, his music really does heal.

Yes, hard to pick a favorite line, but another one that's helping me through my current crisis, and gave me impetus to find some strength in myself and get well:

"If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon."

Oh yes, I so agree with you! This has helped me too!

And what about: "Stay loose, don't fight it, let it take you all the way ... do not waste these hours away" ? I find I can succeed in letting go when I hear this. This music does heal!

You will find your tongue's on fire while lying next to Lavender

WIth the words you've never spoke before and will not speak again

From Don Quixote:

"Then in a blaze of tangled hoaves, he gallops off across the dusty plain in vain to search again, but no one will hear".

Greg

Hmmm...what Oma said plus:

...a tuna fish turned to a mermaid in bed and said "there goes another sand bar" from "Triangle"

and

they live on candied apples instead of oates and hay...."The Pony Man"

and

whatever you think of me...I'm still your friend so other than nothin' what's new? ..."Tatoo"

and

She's my knotty pine
She leans with the wind
She cries turpentine
Sometimes she nettles me
But I don't mind

from "Knotty Pine"

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The one line that says everything there is to say, as far as I'm concerned:

"John loves Mary, does anyone love me?"