"If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Lightfoot wrote the lyrics while he was reflecting on his own divorce. It reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on international release in 1971. == Theme == Lightfoot cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics, which came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer. The song compares... [more on Wikipedia]