Keepin' On Yearning

It's surprising to me how very few Gord's songs are commented upon. I know a lot of his songs are pretty self explanatory, but come on people - you know you love some Lightfoot - represent.

Anyway - i could have sworn he says "Keepin' on smokin', lord i keep on CHOKIN" which made a lot of sense to me, but i'm actually listening to it right now - and i think he does say jokin. I don't know if the Songbook had lyrics - i took the CD's by themselves from my mother - guess i'm the jerk.

Pretty straight forward song here from the Gordfoot - guy doesn't felel content and he's gotta keep of doin' what he's been doing - yearning for that thing no one else has found. Which is apparently a girl who makes the sunshine and the rain no longer important - though taken quite literally - this is foolish. No matter how much i love her, it won't make a drought more tolerable - nor would it sustain all the life on this planet should the sun blink out of existence.

And yes, i understand, and appreciate the romanticism of such a line - however i do like to have fun with the romantics. For, if it were not for such romantic sentiments, you wouldn't have a woman in "If You Could Read My Mind" all disappointed by her dime store romance hero when he failed like men in the real world do. That same real world where you still need sunshine and rain to survive, much less give you old lady the high hard one.