This song comes from Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter known for his timeless songs that often explore themes of loneliness, rivers, highways, and trains. He achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s, with many of his songs covered by other artists. This particular track, released in 1982, carries the distinct mood of its title, inviting a reflective and perhaps melancholic journey. It plays like an intimate rumination, a quiet exploration of what lingers in the periphery.