Lyric discussion by sonztwin 

Cover art for Endless Wire lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon (Rest his soul) was a great artist, but a very imperfect man, just like you and I. He was perfectly incapable of keeping his marriage vows in all his marriages, and as a result, in the most Trumpian fashion, he deflects. In many of his songs, he all but accuses his lover(s) of infidelity, as if he's pure as the driven snow. God told David that, because he chose to revel in bloodshed, the sword will not depart from him and his family. And so it was.