Genius Lyrics
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Dangling Conversation
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“The Dangling Conversation” is a song written by Paul Simon, first released in September 1966 as a Simon and Garfunkel single “The Dangling Conversation”/“The Big Bright Green
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Dangling Conversation (Live)
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It's a still life watercolor / Of a now-late afternoon / As the sun shines through the curtain lace / And shadows wash the room / And we sit and drink our coffee / Couched in our
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Simon & Garfunkel – Leaves That Are Green (Live)
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I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song / I'm twenty-three now, but I won't be for long / Time hurries on / And the leaves that are green turn to brown / And they wither with
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
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“The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine” was written by Simon while he was in London watching his clothes in a washing machine.
It takes a cynical view of advertising. The song
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Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Live)
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What I dream I had / Pressed in organdy / Clothed in crinoline of smoky Burgundy / Softer than the rain / I wandered empty streets / Past the shop displays down / I heard cathedral
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Simon & Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) (Live)
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Slow down, you move too fast / You got to make the morning last / Just kicking down the cobblestones / Looking for fun and feeling groovy / Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy
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Simon & Garfunkel – Sparrow (Live)
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Who will love a little sparrow? / Who's traveled far and cries for rest? / "Not I", said the oak tree / "I won't share my branches with no sparrow's nest / And my blanket of leaves
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Pecuilar Man (Live)
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He was a most peculiar man / That's what Mrs. Reardon says, and she should know / She lived upstairs from him / She said he was a most peculiar man / He was a most peculiar man
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound Of Silence (Live)
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Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again / Because a vision softly creeping / Left its seeds while I was sleeping / And the vision that was planted in my
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Simon & Garfunkel – Wednesday Morning, 3.A.M (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love / As she lies here beside me, asleep with the night / And her hair, in a fine mist, floats on my pillow
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Simon & Garfunkel – He Was My Brother (Live)
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He was my brother / Five years older than I / He was my brother / Twenty-three years old the day he died / Freedom Rider / They cursed my brother to his face / Go home outsider
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Simon & Garfunkel – You Don’t Know Where Your Intrest Lies (Live)
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You don’t know that you love me / You don’t know, but I know that you do / You may think that you’re above me, yeah / What you think isn’t always true / Don’t try to debate me
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Simon & Garfunkel – Patterns - Demo
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The night sets softly / With the hush of falling leaves / Casting shivering shadows / On the houses through the trees / And the light from a street lamp / Paints a pattern on my
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Simon & Garfunkel – Patterns
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“Patterns” was written by Paul Simon and originally included on his 1965 album The Paul Simon Songbook.
The lyrics are about how life is a complex pattern that is difficult to
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Poem On The Underground Wall - Demo
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(Spoken by Paul Simon) / Listen closely to this thing, because- / (Spoken by an engineer) / Okay, Paul! / (Spoken by Paul Simon) / -where I wanna go with on the arrangements / (
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Simon & Garfunkel – Cloudy
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“Cloudy” was jointly written by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley of The Seekers (who later re-recorded it for their 1967 album Seekers Seen in Green).
The song is whimsical and
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Simon & Garfunkel – Red Rubber Ball (Live)
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I should have known you'd bid me farewell / There's a lesson to be learned from this / And I learned it very well / Now I know you're not / The only starfish in the sea / If I
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man (Live)
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He was a most peculiar man / That's what Mrs. Reardon says, and she should know / She lived upstairs from him / She said he was a most peculiar man / He was a most peculiar man
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Simon & Garfunkel – Star Carol
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Long years ago, on a deep winter night / High in the heavens, a star shone bright / While in the manger, a wee baby lay / Sweetly asleep, on a bed of hay / Jesus our lord, was that
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Simon & Garfunkel – Overs
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[Verse 1: Paul Simon] / Why don't we stop fooling ourselves? / The game is over, over, over / No good times, no bad times / There's no times at all / Just The New York Times
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Simon & Garfunkel – Bye, Bye Love (Live)
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Bye bye love / Bye bye happiness / Hello loneliness / I think I'm gonna cry / Bye bye love / Bye bye sweet caress / Hello emptiness / I feel like I could die / Bye bye love
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Sufjan Stevens and Simon (& Garfunkel)
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Listening to Carrie & Lowell again, I really feel like there’s a similarity between what I’ve heard of Steven’s work, C&L and Illinois, and Simon’s work both with Garfunkel and solo. There’s this delicacy, moreso with Stevens, and elegance to both that is really calming and beautiful.
Anyone else see this, or is it just me?
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Simon & Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
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The 59th Street Bridge is the colloquial name of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City.
The song’s message is immediately delivered in its opening verse: "Slow down, you move too
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Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
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“For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” is a song written by Paul Simon. It is the tenth track on Simon & Garfunkel’s 1966 album by Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, where it is sung
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Simon & Garfunkel – Flowers Never Bend with The Rainfall
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[Verse 1] / Through the corridors of sleep / Past shadows dark and deep / My mind dances and leaps in confusion / I don't know what is real / I can't touch what I feel / And I hide
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Simon & Garfunkel – My Little Town
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“My Little Town” was written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. It appeared as the second song on Simon’s solo album “Still Crazy After All These Years” and as the sixth song on
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Poem on the Underground Wall
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This song concerns an artistically-minded vandal on the London Underground – his graffiti being referred to as a “poem.”
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Simon & Garfunkel – Comfort and Joy
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God rest ye merry gentlemen / Let nothing you dismay / Remember Christ our savior / Was born on Christmas Day / To save us all from Satan's power / When we we're gone astray / Oh
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (Single Version)
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Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again / Because a vision softly creeping / Left its seeds while I was sleeping / And the vision that was planted in my
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)
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“A Simple Desultory Phillipic” is a parody of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon’s main competitor at the time.
Simon imitates his musical style (mixing electric and acoustic guitars backed by
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Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound
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Once the recording of Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. had been completed, Paul Simon travelled to England to explore the London folk scene. While there, he met Kathy Chitty (the same
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