"Today I saw the world again
It seemed the same as yesterday
The splendor of it's ruins and it's shame.
It's towers rose against the sky
Reminding all who care to look
That what's been built can be destroyed again."
These words are from the song "Face of a Thousand People" written by Gordon Lightfoot
many years before the events of 9/11.
He didn't record the song but I was fortunate enough to be in his presence when
he sang it with the accompaniment of Red Shea and John Stockfish during a CBC
television production in the mid sixties in Toronto and it just made an indelible mark in
my brain.
I have to thank John Fowles for requesting it during one of our pub jam events which we
put on when Gord does his Massey Hall concerts. We'll keep it in there John.
It's just one of those songs that sends out a lyrical impulse beginning with the
very first line and follows right through till the very end.
His mind was overflowing with his vision of the day it seems.
Thank you for citing these profound lyrics on this reflective, beautiful fall morning, and for sharing with us the memory of hearing them being expressed first hand by the man himself.
Lest We Forget-John Stockfish
