If you could read my mind love...

15-01-2023 12:09AM #1

I think it's the most beautiful song.. because it's so honest...

Its so authentic...well my interpretation of it is ...I mean how I relate to it...not anyone else

Hes still loves her but in a different way...he's saying how he feels trapped and he can't live up to unrealistic expectations from him and even if he could..it wouldn't be him...

I read before that his children or his wife who it was about... not sure were very hurt by the lyric...'the feelings that you lack' and it was changed at the time...

Its such a beautiful song...there's certain songs that move you in different ways...I don't know "nothing compares to you' performed by Sinead O'Connor for me would be an equal comparison of bare beautifully articulated authenticity..I don't know..lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fT_J-LNqVvw

15-01-2023 12:30AM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nQUqWCr6wiU

Another beautiful one that popped on my feed xx

15-01-2023 01:32AM

Sad noone is interested in the chat of a bit of music 🙄 perhaps it's just me who likes to delve into the melody/lyrics 😁 I like that...tho alot of people I think just like to hear songs and not look any deeper BLA BLA

Another one of these I love is....but I won't explain my thoughts on it cause I don't think they'd be appreciated so I'll keep them to myself lol ☺️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UtvmTu4zAMg

15-01-2023 01:47AM

If You Could Read My Mind is lovely - and I love Johnny Cash's version too - but a song by Gordon Lightfoot which I like even more is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Amazing reflection on a terrible tragedy.

15-01-2023 01:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120110305#Comment_120110305

Great song ye but I'm specifically looking for more raw straight out there authentic feelings in a song rather than metaphorical story songs which I also enjoy btw...but I am a fan of The National who have a real knack for what I'm talking about... so that uncoated lyrical feeling I was looking for..

15-01-2023 02:10AM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4K0scMysc

Another one them of them of what I'm on about...like that authentic feeling to a song...

15-01-2023 02:12AM

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails (prefer the Johnny Cash version) is lyrically quite devastating.

15-01-2023 02:14AM

Yes! And I first knew the johnny cash version and it was amazing...first time I heard it...I loved it cause it was so real..

gameoverdude · 15-01-2023 02:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120110326#Comment_120110326

House of the rising sun by the animals

gameoverdude · 15-01-2023 02:23AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120110339#Comment_120110339

Good call. It is very hurt the original

15-01-2023 02:30AM

Back to Black by Amy Winehouse is a real gut punch.

StupidLikeAFox · 15-01-2023 02:37AM

Canadian Geese by Damien Dempsey. Not really a fan but that song is powerful

One eyed Jack · 15-01-2023 02:38AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120110326#Comment_120110326

Think I know exactly what you mean:

https://youtu.be/DTFbGcnl0po

https://youtu.be/W_rZ9rHFwGY

ThePentagon · 15-01-2023 02:58AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120110342#Comment_120110342

Unpopular opinion but I never liked the Johnny Cash version. Partially because I knew and liked the NIN original before but also because the JC version seemed a bit inauthentic to me - it seemed highly unlikely he was a NIN fan and more the case the song was probably foisted on him by the producer.

I'm aware Trent Reznor said something like even he prefers the JC cover but anyhow that's my opinion.