Paul reflects on recording Graceland, and answers questions about the possibility of recording with Art again.
“There was no objection to the record of Graceland. There was an objection after the fact — well after the fact — to where it was recorded, so if there’s anything naive about it, it’s because I didn’t double check and say ‘well, I’m gonna go and do this.’ But quite honestly, I didn’t feel like double checking, because I wanted to go and record with those musicians.”
Interviewed a few months ago, Art said he would like to record with Paul again, “but you’d just have to bring the psychiatrist in as the third member!” Listen to Paul’s response here.
“All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest” - The Boxer
“Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph. Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you” - Bookends
“So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall” - Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall
“And after it rains there’s a rainbow, and all of the colors are black, it’s not that the colors aren’t there, it’s just imagination they lack” - My Little Town
“And she said, ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart. Everybody sees you’re blown apart, everybody sees the wind blow.’ ” - Graceland
“They say that the left side of the brain controls the right. They say that the right side has to work hard all night. Maybe I think too much for my own good. Some people say so, other people say, ‘No, no, the fact is you don’t think as much as you could.’ Hmm.” - Think Too Much (a)
“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words, ‘I love you’, but like a child, they’re longing to be told…” - Something So Right
“And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight,
I held your hand” - For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
“Don’t talk of love. Well I’ve heard the word before. It’s sleeping in my memory. I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved, I never would have cried.” - I am a Rock
“Mary had no friends at all,
just famous faces pinned the wall
all of them watched her, none of them saw
that she shone like a gem in a five and dime store” - Mary Was an Only Child
“I remember times when you’d touch me
And you’d, you’d freeze my spine.
We were looking in the mirror at the time
I got confused and thought your eyes were mine” - Shine it on Me
caroliknow’s favourite lyrics
“I heard a church bell softly chime/ In a melody sustainin’/ It’s a long road to Canaan/ On Bleecker Street”-Bleecker Street
“To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night”- A Poem on the Underground Wall
“Oh my Grace I got no hiding place”- Save the Life of my Child
“And the moon rose over an open field”- America
“A time of innocence/ a time of confidences”- Bookends
“I prefer boysenberry/ More than any ordinary jam/ I’m a “Citizens for Boysenberry Jam” fan”- Punky’s Dilemma
“Everywhere I go/ I get slandered, libeled/ I hear words I never heard in the Bible”- Keep the Customer Satisfied
“Tom, get your plane right on time/ I know that you’ve been eager to fly now/ Hey, let your honesty shine, shine, shine/ Like it shines on me”- The Only Living Boy in New York
“In my little town, I never ment nothin’ I was just my father’s son/ Saving my money, dreaming of glory, twitching like a finger on the trigger of a gun”- My Little Town
“And I was born in the boredom and the chowder”- Duncan
“Holes in my confidence, holes in the knees of my jeans”- Duncan
“And when the radical priest come to get me released/We was all on the cover of Newsweek”- Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
“You can’t outrun the history train”- Peace Like a River
“It’s carbon and monoxide/ The ol’ Detroit perfume/ And it hangs on the highways in the morning/ And it lays you down by noon”- Papa Hobo
“We come on the ship they call the Mayflower/ We come on the ship that sailed the moon”- American Tune
“Negotiations and love songs are often mistaken for one and the same”- Train in the Distance
“The easy stream of laughter flowing through the air/ René and Georgette Magritte with their dog après la guerre”- René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
“The way we look to a distant constellation that’s dying in a corner of the sky”- The Boy in the Bubble
“She comes back to tell me she’s gone/ As if I didn’t know that/ As if I didn’t know my own bed/ As if I’d never noticed/ The way she brushed her hair from her forehead./ And she said, ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart/ Everybody sees you’re blown apart/ Everybody sees the wind blow’” -Graceland
“She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight/ I said, ‘Aren’t you the woman who was recently given a Fulbright?’”- I Know What I Know
“She was physically forgotten/ Then she slipped into my pocket with my car keys”- Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
“And sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears”- The Cool, Cool River
“My hands were numb, my feet were lead/I drank a cup of herbal brew/Then the sweetness in the air combined with the lightness in my head/ And I heard the jungle breathing in the bamboo”- Spirit Voices
melodysustainin’s favorite lyrics
A playlist by your friendly neighborhood admins
- Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound
- Old Friends
- Bookends
- Blues Run The Game (Outtake)
- America
- The Boxer (Live, 1969)
- Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
- The Only Living Boy in New York
- The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) (Live, 1969)
- Cecilia
- Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
- Leaves That Are Green (Live, 1967)
- A Most Peculiar Man (Live, 1967)
- For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Live, 1969)
- The Sound of Silence (Live, 1969)
- Bleecker Street (Demo)
- Bridge Over Troubled Water (Demo, Take 6)
Download it here.
May 17th, 2011 is a very important date for us here at Simon & Garfunkel; it happens to be the day that this site, officially, came into existence.
When we first began posting I think I can speak for all of us when I say I was hopeful. With some of the most prominent S & G blogs gathered together, pooling their resources, I felt that this site could blossom into the kind of tribute that Paul and Art deserved. And here we are, exactly one year later, with an amazing community of Simon & Garfunkel fans all around us! And I think we’ve done something good here. Something to be proud of.
That is why we will be celebrating today; celebrating our community, our one year of posting, and of course Paul and Artie. We have a lot queued up for you!
We hope you enjoy and may you all have a Garfunkeltastic day!
- Elizabeth
“They were getting ready to sing I believe Slip Slidin’ Away, and someone in the stands yelled out ‘I LOVE YOU PAUL SIMON!’ He sorta looked in the general direction and said ‘That’s nice, but how d’you think that makes Artie feel?’ And in the quietest little voice that just like, oozed affection, Art replied ‘It’s alright. I love you, too.’”
(From the July 3, 2004 concert in Las Vegas)
