It’s as haunting a song as has ever been written.+
Mrs. RushLake, Amy RushLake, and I visited the Whitefish Point Lighthouse museum north of Paradise, Michigan last summer (again) and took the time to sit thru the taped presentation of the event featuring the survivors and the Lightfoot song in the background. It really grips you, hard.
Stop it - sorry, but that’s one of my (countless) peeves. You are an expert on what moves you, and obviously Gordon did. Artists shouldn’t be writing for the critics or the artsy-fartsy crowd; a song like that was meant to move the masses of non-experts. It means a lot.