Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simonis an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Simon's fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth13 October 1941
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
lines poverty pockets
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure...
writing mind lines
As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.
birthday depressed good hung line mess year
Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...
birthday depressed good hung line mess year
Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...
charlie divorce eat fat files weight year
Fat Charlie the archangel files for divorce, he says, well this will eat up a year of my life, and there's all that weight to be lost.
dreams girl sail shine silver time
Sail on, Silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine
listening people songs talking voices
People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing,/ People writing songs that voices never shared.
ages amazed american-musician expected minor silence sound utterly
Between the ages of 15 and 22, I had made only one very minor hit, so I expected everything to be a flop. I was utterly amazed that The Sound of Silence was a big hit.
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Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself, how it's strange that some rooms are like cages, Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf and he idoly thumbs through the pages. Some have died, some have fled from themselves, or struggled from here to get there. Sonny wonders beyond his interior walls, runs his hands through his thining brown hair.
afraid coffee cold fall rattle shake
I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes.
acting best greatly interest
I was greatly reassured that she was acting in the best interest of journalists and the public.
car physically please taken
She was physically forgottenThen she slipped into my pocketWith my car keysShe said you've taken me for grantedBecause I please you
emotions love maybe near
She says, maybe these emotions are as near to love as love will ever be.
hair noticed
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.