Gordon Lightfoot- "Sundown"

[Wetzelbill]

What can I say, I'm just in a Gordon Lightfoot kind of mood tonight. :) -WB

SUNDOWN
Gordon Lightfoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oui-56jA8HU

Lyrics:

I can see her lyin’ back in her satin dress
In a room where ya do what ya don’t confess
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ’round my back stairs
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ’round my back stairs

She’s been lookin’ like a queen in a sailor’s dream
And she don’t always say what she really means
Sometimes I think it’s a shame
When I get feelin’ better when I’m feelin’ no pain
Sometimes I think it’s a shame
When I get feelin’ better when I’m feelin’ no pain

I can picture every move that a man could make
Getting lost in her lovin’ is your first mistake
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ’round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winnin’ when I’m losin again

I can see her lookin’ fast in her faded jeans
She’s a hard lovin’ woman, got me feelin’ mean
Sometimes I think it’s a shame
When I get feelin’ better when I’m feelin’ no pain
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ’round my back stairs
Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin’ ’round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winnin’ when I’m losin’ again

[Skittles]

1. isn't he singing about the chick that gave Belushi his fatal overdose?

I think I read that somewhere

[Wetzelbill]

2. I heard that too

My brother was telling me that. I'm not sure, I'll have to look it up.

Ok.. here is the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_%28song%29

[Skittles]

3. Carefree Highway - that's my favorite GL song

I just love that song

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5. "Sundown" came out way before Belushi died

[Wetzelbill]

8. yeah but Cathy Smith was Lightfoot's mistress

then she later went on be involved in the Belushi thing. This is about his relationship with her, not the Belushi incident.

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9. OH ok.

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4. I always loved "Sundown"

For some reason it makes me picture driving or riding down a road that is descending a mountain into a valley, while there is a red sunset and a thundersorm in the distance. I don't know why, it just sounds that way.

[outofbounds]

6. I remember

hearing that song on the way to Holiday Downs in Atlanta. I was 9yr old flat-tracking motorcycles on Saturday Nights. We would crest a hill the sun would be going down and I would see all that clay and banked turns and lights and hear that song playing on the radio. Some things never leave you.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Great song.

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[wildhorses]

10. i always liked this romanticism of this song

the smell of it...

like lavender