On a sidenote: I think this song says a lot about people who are having a hard time what to feel or how act when something they thought they wanted is right in front of them. **** I think this part is knowing and being sad about the fact that the relationship could possibly end (since she's having a hard time making arrangements to herself) but also knowing that the only person who could make you happy is the person who's about to break your heart. **** i think it's about waiting for someone to make a decision whether they'll stay or go. When you're young enough to repay (old enough to stay in a committed, give-and-take relationship) but also young enough sell (young enough to sell out your relationship by taking the easy way out and breaking it off)
Lightfoot moves from ruminating to his own reflections on the relationship to feelings of loneliness and grief.Asking someone or yourself why is it hard to make arrangements with yourself The meaning of the song is evident in each verse. “I was of course going through some emotional trauma leading up to a separation, so that of course manifested itself in that particular song on that particular afternoon,” said Lightfoot of the song in 2010, remembering the moment he wrote it more than 40 years earlier. The lyrics came to Lightfoot one summer in 1969 while he was sitting in his empty house in Toronto that was up for sale. The couple were married in 1963 and had two children together, Ingrid and Fred, before their divorce in 1973. One of Lightfoot’s most personal songs, “If You Could Read My Mind” was written about his deteriorating marriage to first wife Brita Ingegerd Olaisson.
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