Gordon Lightfoot - Song For A Winter's Night

From "Gord's Gold" (1975)

LYRICS:

The lamp is burning low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still in the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling

If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me

If I could know within my heart, that you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter night with you

The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are lifting
The morning light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are drifting

If I could only have you near, to breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
And to be once again with you
On this winter night with you

Category:

Music

Tags:

• gordon lightfoot
• song for a winter's night
• original version
• gord's gold

[crowleysridgegirl]

One of the very best songs GL ever recorded,and,he's one of the very best artists I've ever heard.

[OysterLava]

With instant messaging and cell phones, I guess songs like this won't be written ever again.

[25taiku]

this song, as well as so many other Lightfoot songs, has an awesome bass line that really compliments the other parts :)

[datalal624]

@datalal624 Also, given that he's talking about a burning lamp, maybe the song is set in some time long ago, not Gordon himself in the '70s. And, well, I hope people don't stop writing songs set in the past. But you're partly right that songs like this won't be written ever again---because there's only one Gordon Lightfoot. :)

[datalal624]

@OysterLava I think the song is more about how he misses being near his love, and feeling her touch, etc.-- I'm presuming he could just call her up, but that a phone call isn't really enough in the chill of a winter's night. Songs will always be written about that sort of longing, I think... Even in the future, when we can call up a holographic image of a lover that feels real, I bet it still won't feel the same as the real thing.

[wicapis]

@naftoun Love to Iran from the United States!

[selatik1]

@naftoun Thank you, Mr. Ahmadinejad!

[naftoun]

Love Gordon Lightfoot!

- from Iran

[TheTyukodi]

@OysterLava I don't know whats more depressing, the fact no one has tried to prove you wrong or the fact that this comment one of the highest rated for this awesome song. The age of Music has truly passed.

[robtuohy1]

@crowleysridgegirl Yes it is truly one of the best GL songs ever recorded. I am proud to be Canadian when I hear Gord sing. Just curious, what part of the world are you from?

[robtuohy1]

@The1Katarina1 Yes you are 100% correct. Well said.