Gordon wrote hundreds of songs and I enjoyed most of them. Among my favourites were
'Saturday clothes', 'Circle of steel', 'Miguel', 'Summer side of life', 'The Watchman's Gone', and more recently
'End Of All Time'. In the end however
If you could read my mind was the first I remember and with the biggest baggage. I like the way the lyrics describe the failed relationship in theatrical terms thus magnifying their personal significance:
'I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three-way script' And the outstanding acoustic guitar riffs make it worthy of a classic standard, its been covered by just about every one.
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