Already themed around the breakup of Gordon Lightfoot's marriage, he also told Perfoming Songerwiter that some of the song's most moving lyrics were suggested by his young daughter. On the topic of the lyrical content, Lightfoot said, "There's a line in the song that goes 'If you read between the lines, you'll know that I'm just trying to understand the feeling that you lack.'"
Lightfoot said his daughter, who was just a girl at the time, "heard the song and asked me 'Don't you lack any feelings, daddy?' She got me to change the line to 'the feelings that we lack.' She said I was putting the whole onus of the divorce on her mother." The musician later remarried and is survived by his wife Kim Hasse, six children, and many grandchildren, according to NBC News. Since its 1970 release, "Read My Mind" has become one of Lightfoot's most covered compositions.
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