Words & music by paul simon Rene and georgette magritte With their dog after the war Returned to their hotel suite And they unlocked the door Easily losing the...

I've been working on my rewrite, that's right I'm gonna change the ending Gonna throw away my title And toss it in the trash Every minute after midnight All the...

They say that Richard Cory owns one half of this whole town With political connections to spread his wealth around Born into society a banker's only child He ha...

Went to my doctor yesterday A-a-a-a-ah, she said I seem to be ok A-a-a-a-ah, she said "paul, you better look around How long you think that you can Run that bod...

In my little town I grew up believing God keeps His eye on us all And He used to lean upon me As I pledged allegiance to the wall Lord I recall My little town ...

SAL I been sleeping on the roof of my building It's cooler than the street I been watching the setting sun As it bounces off the avenue Turning into gold dust a...

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a ca...

I have a wisdom tooth Inside my crowed face I have a friend who is born again Found his savior's grace I was born before my father And my children before me We ...

I feel good It's a fine day The way the sun hits off the runway A cloud shifts The plane lifts She moves on But feel the bite Whenever you believe that You'll ...

Words & music by paul simon Silent eyes Watching jerusalem Make her bed of stones Silent eyes No one will comfort her Jerusalem Weeps alone She is sorrow, sor...

Slip slidin' away Slip slidin' away You know the nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin' away I know a man He came from my home town He wore his p...

I'm going to make a chicken gumbo Toss some sausage in the pot I'm going to flavor it with okra Cayenne pepper to make it hot You know life is what we make of i...

Soft parachutes Fourth of July Villages burning Returning The bodies all laid in a line Like soft parachutes Last year as a senior In Emerson High school I had...

Some folks' lives roll easy as a breeze Drifting through a summer night Heading for a sunny day But most folks' lives, oh they stumble Lord they fall Through no...

You've got the cool water When the fever runs high You've got the look of lovelight in your eyes And I was in crazy motion 'Til you calmed me down It took a lit...

If you want to write a song about the moon Walk along the craters of the afternoon When the shadows are deep And the light is alien And gravity leaps like a kni...

This is my song for the asking Ask me and I will play So sweetly I´ll make you smile Here is my tune for the taking Take it, don´t turn away I´ve been waiting ...

Paul Simon "Wednesday Morning 3AM", 1964 The Sound of Silence Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creepi...

We sailed up a river wide as a sea And slept on the banks On the leaves of a banyan tree And all of these spirit voices rule the night Some stories are magical,...

Oo, little sleepy boy Do you know what time it is? Well the hour of your bedtime's long been past And though I know you're fighting it I can tell when you rub y...

I met my old lover On the street last night She seemed so glad to see me I just smiled And we talked about some old times And we drank ourselves some beers Stil...

paul simon he was a mean individual, he had a heart like a bone, he was a naturally crazy man, and better off left alone, he stopped one nite, at a traffic lit...

Esmeralda Salvador, the afternoon sunlight is folding around us, The dishes are done, The buildings here, tall as our mountains Slice through the windows and cu...

I registered to vote today Felt like a fool Had to do it anyway Down at the high school Thing about the second line You know, felt like a fool? People say it al...

Words & music by paul simon C?mon take me to the mardi gras Where the people sing and play Where the dancing is elite And there?s music in the street Both nigh...

What can I do What can I do Much of what you say is true I know you see through me But there's no tenderness Beneath your honesty Oh, right and wrong Right and...

A long time ago, yeah Before you was born dude When I was still single And life was great I held this job as a traveling salesman That kept me moving from state...

Well I'll just skip the boring parts chapters one, two , three and get to the place where you can read my face and my biography Here I am, I'm eleven months old...

Somewhere in a burst of glory Sound becomes a song I'm bound to tell a story That's where I belong When I see you smiling When I hear you singing Lavender and ...

When I was born my mother died She said bye-bye baby, bye-bye I said "where you goin'? " "i'm just born" She said I'll only be gone for a while My mother loved ...

Slow down, you move too fast You got to make the morning last Just kicking down the cobble stones Looking for fun and feelin' groovy Hello lamppost, What cha k...

After I died and the makeup had dried I went back to my place No moon that night, but a heavenly light Shown on my face Still I thought it was odd there was no ...

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises All lies and jest, still a man...

It was a slow day And the sun was beating On the soldiers by the side of the road There was a bright light A shattering of shop windows The bomb in the baby car...

A family of musicians took shelter for the night In the little harbor church of St Cecilia Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine Rose of Jericho and Bouga...

Moves like a fist through traffic Anger and no one can heal it Shoves a little bump into the momentum It's just a little lump But you feel it In the creases and...

It's a still life water color, Of a now late afternoon, As the sun shines through the curtained lace And shadows wash the room And we sit and drink our coffee C...

Words & music by paul simon I was reading a magazine And thinking of a rock and roll song The year was nineteen fiftyfour And I hadn?t been playing that long W...

Over the mountain Down in the valley Lives a former talk-show host Everybody knows his name He says there's no doubt about it It was the myth of fingerprints I'...

I'm accustomed to a smooth ride Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more I don't expect to sleep through the nigh...

Tom, get your plane right on time I know your part'll go fine Fly down to Mexico Da-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da and here I am, The only living boy in New York I get th...

If I have weaknesses Don't let them blind me Or camouflage all I am wary of I could be sailing in seizures of laughter Or crawling out from under the heel of lo...

On the side of a hill, in a land called somewhere A little boy lies asleep in the earth While down in the valley a crew orages And people forget what a child's ...

There once was a teacher of great renown Whose words were like the tablets of stone Because it's easier to learn than unlearn Because we've passed the point of ...

HERNANDEZ Well, did you bring me my money, My cab fare My new shoes? I got expenses, you know Where's my weekly dues? SAL I ain't giving you my fucking money ...

If a feeling's born and no one complains Well that's good luck Running through young veins And if life is a blessing That brushes the tops of the trees Well it'...

The smartest people in the world Had gathered in los angeles To analyze our love affair And possibly unscramble us And we sat among our photographs Examined eve...

SAL I speak to you in Jesus's name As Jesus speaks through me, The evil we do can't be blamed upon our destiny I have walked through the valley of death-row to ...

LAZARUS A passenger traveling quietly conceals himself With a magazine and a sleepless pillow Over the crest of the mountain the moon begins its clim And he wak...

(Paul Simon) She was beautiful as Southern skies The night he met her She was married to someone He was doggedly determined that he would get her He was old, h...

(Paul Simon) Joseph's face was black as night The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes His path was marked By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere And he walked ...

Virgil I've got a wife, four grown children I can't afford their education I been a prison guard for fourteen years That ain't exactly a vacation Warden Since ...

Wake up little Susie, wake up Wake up little Susie, wake up We've both been sond asleep Wake up little Susie and weep The movies over, its four a'clock And were...

Prayers offered in times of peace are silent conversations, Appeals for love or loves release, in private invocations But all that is changed now, Gone like a ...

Was a sunny day Not a cloud was in the sky Not a negative word was heard >From the people passing by Was a sunny day All the birdies in the trees And the radio'...

(Paul Simon) I have a number in my head Though I don't know why it's there When numbers get serious You see their shape everywhere Dividing and multiplying Exc...

A man walks down the street He says why am I soft in the middle now Why am I soft in the middle The rest of my life is so hard I need a photo-opportunity I want...

You're kind You're so kind You rescued me when I was blind And you put me on your pillow When I was on the wall You're kind, so kind, so kind And you're good Y...

May twelve angels guard you While you sleep Maybe that's a waste of angels I don't know I'd do anything to keep you safe From the danger that surrounds us Littl...