Sometimes I think its a shame

[low-key]

Gordon Lightfoot gets feelin better when hes feelin no pain

 

[disneychrista]

I feel better when I am not feeling pain too.

 

[Lizgistix]

...is that lady still creepin' around his back stairs?

 

[low-key]

...is that lady still creepin' around his back stairs?

shes cray cray

 

[Kittyblue]

Think hes more worried about who she's creepin with

 

[SamFaniam]

Think hes more worried about who she's creepin with

It's his own fault, after all he knew that getting lost in her loving was a mistake.

 

[disneychrista]

It's his own fault, after all he knew that getting lost in her loving was a mistake.

We don't always have control over our hearts.

 

[low-key]

. Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown is one of his most famous songs. It is about infidelity, but Sundown is not the woman, but the other man who is pursuing her!

 

[Kittyblue]

Sundown is not the woman, but the other man who is pursuing her!

Did not know that, but it makes sense

 

[low-key]

Did not know that, but it makes sense

me either, he must call him sundown, cause thats when she creeps out with him

 

[Heather07438]

Her other side is "Afternoon Delight"

 

[HeatherC]

Love his voice. Just crystal clear and soooo relaxing.

 

[Micca]

I liked his song Wreck Of The Ella Fitzgerald

 

[chickapin parterre]

....haven't got time for the pain

All those crazy nights when I cried myself to sleep .
Now melodrama never makes me weep anymore
'cause I haven't got time for the pain
I haven't got room for the pain
I haven't the need for the pain

#2 on 1974 Billboard chart for adult contemporary....way too many adults listening to my station!!

Sundown, #13 on country hot singles, 1974.....boy, how did we survive high school in 1974?

 

[Hikergirl]

Sundown is one my favorites of his but Carefree Highway is at the top of my list.

 

[Lizgistix]

Elwood did a rap/hip-hop style cover of this and it's a bit different but I'm kind of digging it.

 

[low-key]

when we started talking about it, i got interested, here is what I also found out

. But Lightfoot didn’t write the song about his ex-wife. Instead, the song came out of his long affair with Cathy Smith, the notorious groupie and ex-drug dealer who would later do prison time for shooting John Belushi up with the speedball that killed him.


The night Lightfoot wrote “Sundown,” he was sitting at home, stressing out. Smith was out at a bar with her friends, and he was worried that she’d hook up with someone else. He put all his most immediate feelings into the song, which he literally wrote as the sun was setting.


“Sundown” is a pretty atypical piece of mid-’70s folk-rock. It’s not soft or fluffy or reassuring. Instead, it’s ugly and sweaty and driven. That’s what’s interesting about it. It’s one of the reasons why the song works as well as it does. Lightfoot might’ve been contemporaries with people like John Denver or Cat Stevens, but he carried a darkness that those guys didn’t have.

He’s fixated on her, on possessing her. He knows that he’s leading himself down a dark path: “Sometimes, I think it’s a shame / When I get feeling better when I’m feeling no pain.” He spends his nights worrying about catching someone creeping ’round his back stairs. And there’s no resolution; he ends the song stuck in that simmering-rage fugue state.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Whoops, think I hit save at the same time.

"Sundown" is very menacing, mostly because it's so matter-of-fact, it's a cold stark contemplation with no uplift through hope for redemption.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

I hear those songs and wish I was a young kid again.

edited to add, I didn't have a clue what the song was about, it was just a great song!

 

[low-key]

Whoops, think I hit save at the same time.

"Sundown" is very menacing, mostly because it's so matter-of-fact, it's a cold stark contemplation with no uplift through hope for redemption.

"Gimme Three Steps", same idea but more catchy.

yes it is but Sundown is so dark, I like that

I hear those songs and wish I was a young kid again.

edited to add, I didn't have a clue what the song was about, it was just a great song!

oh to be young again