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Problem child lyrics11/11/2022 ![]() “Tell me something surprising, Gord,” I say right off the bat. I’m also here to gather fresh insights into the composer of classics such as “Sundown,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “If You Could Read My Mind” and the man Bob Dylan once called a mentor. Lightfoot was photographed in his home in December 2019. What’s remarkable about the album’s 10 tracks is their stark intimacy, both lyrically and musically. ![]() Lightfoot found the recordings last year while moving out of his Early Morning Productions office on Yonge Street. Solo is a collection made up entirely of songs that date back to the early 2000s. I’m there, in part, to learn more about Solo, Lightfoot’s 21st studio album and his first since the 2004’s Harmony. This is Lightfoot’s lair, a dark, wood-panelled room full of Martin and Gibson guitars, Fender and Traynor amps, vintage cassette recorders and shelves full of tapes and notebooks containing the set lists of concerts going back decades. She leads me to the music room off the large, marbled-tiled foyer. The door opens, and Lightfoot’s wife, Kim, greets me enthusiastically. Gordon Lightfoot on the cover of Zoomer’s March/April 2020 issue. ![]() On previous visits, Lightfoot would often be sitting in that chair, smoking a cigarette, even in the dead of winter. A weathered lawn chair is folded up and set to one side. I walk across lightly fallen snow and ring his doorbell. There’s plenty of room because Lightfoot keeps his 2001 Chevy Monte Carlo in the garage around back. What will be the latest chapter in the singer-songwriter’s tale, and will the notoriously reticent artist be more forthcoming? I park out front. Think of him as Papa Lightfoot, the last of the troubadours, the grand old man of Canadian song.Īs I head up the winding driveway, I wonder what awaits. He’s already the father of six children (by four mothers) and grandfather to another five. For another, he was the subject of a major documentary, Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, in which he discussed his storied career and timeless songs alongside fans like Geddy Lee, Anne Murray and Alec Baldwin. For one thing, Lightfoot has reached the age of 81. ![]() Much has transpired since my book, Lightfoot, was published in 2017. As Lightfoot’s biographer, I’ve travelled there many times, off and on, over a 12-year period. I slow down opposite rapper Drake’s monster palace, complete with indoor basketball court, and turn toward the stately home of Gordon Lightfoot. I turn into the Bridle Path neighbourhood, an ultra-posh enclave known as Millionaire’s Row. I’m driving up Toronto’s Bayview Avenue on a winter’s night in early January. To mark his 83rd birthday, we’re revisiting our March/April 2020 cover story with the beloved Canadian troubadour, which features photography by Bryan Adams. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.#-# Song: Problem Child By: Leah Andreone Album: Veiled Chorded by: Adam Klein E-Mail me with your comments, corrections or suggestions, or just to say hello! My Web Page: The Ultimate Amanda Marshall Homepage: Capo on 2nd Intro: Am G Am G Am G Why won't you pay attention Am G Pray every night I'll make you happy Am G If I'm real bad will you punish me Am G Am The contact hurts but at least you're touching me Am Can't you see can't you read please read me please Am G Hard to believe I'm your flesh and blood Am G Am Watch your mistakes swimming down my face Am G Jump up and down and I'll even fall Am G To your feet you're stepping on me Am G You're hurting me you don't notice me you're hurting me F G Am I'm screaming I'm breaking I'm grieving get angry F G Am I'm rebelling I'm trying I'm losing be proud of me F G Am I'm sickening I'm learning please notice me I'm your baby F7 G Am I all you hoped that I would be Am Must be no boundaries guess no one cares Am G Am What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine to get Am G I'll make you listen until you're blue Am G Am The contact hurts but at least I'm touching you F G Am I'm raping I'm craving I'm begging get angry F G Am I'm weakening I'm regretting I'm sorry be proud of me F G I'm invisible I'm multiplying G Am I'm pleading I'm killing F7 G Am I all you hoped that I would be G La la's (play chords A F & Am) Ahhhh.Gordon Lightfoot has dodged death, had myriad romantic entanglements and outlasted most of his contemporaries. #-PLEASE NOTE-#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the#song. ![]()
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