My question doesn't have much to do with the song.

In the songbook, Gord said that there had bin other times when he wrote as confident as that, but they had been few and far in between. When were those "other times" because 'Keepin On Yearnin' and 'Canary Yellow Canoe' were not far at all.

Maybe 'Lifeline' perhaps. I don't know the lyrics but it sounds like a pretty confident song to me.