Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind

( IT'S NITE & HERE I AM AGAIN< INSIDE THE " SALTY DOG LOUNGE"< UNIONDALE< LONG ISLAND<AMIDST MY FAV PAST TIME<SITTING< WATCHING THE MOVING THRONG OF SINGLE LADIES< DETACHED & SILENT):LOST IN A SEA OF STRANGE FACES, SMILING, TALKING, DRINKING TO LIFE, & ME; SURROUNDED BY THIS MULTITUDE, ON COMES"IF U COULD READ MY MIND" AGAIN(1 GUESS WHO PUT THE QUARTER IN THE JUKE), NOW "SINGING ALONG W/"GORDON", CARESSING MY "SOUTHERN COMFORT" GLASS", TRYIN TO EMPTY MY BRAiN OF ANYTHING CONNECTED TO HER(DIANE-MY 1ST ,BUT NOT LAST TRUE LOVE). STRANGE THOUGHTS R SWIRLING IN MY HEAD, SHORTLY TO BECOME"TRYIN' TOO HARD", MY VERY 1ST SONG(WORDS, MUSIC& SONG SHEET).SO, NO PAIN, NO GAIN. OWE IT ALL TO U, THE LOST "LADY DIANE". ROCK ON.