Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Feuilles-O
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Feuilles oh, sauvez la vie moi, J'ai de la misère oh / Feuilles oh, sauvez la vie moi, J'ai de la misère oh / Pitie moi malade, Je cours à la maison du gangan Similo / Pitie moi
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Simon & Garfunkel – A Poem on the Underground Wall (Live)
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The last train is nearly due / The Underground is closing soon / And in the dark, deserted station / Restless in anticipation / A man waits in the shadows / His restless eyes leap
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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 – 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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Simon & Garfunkel – Blessed (Live)
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Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit / Blessed is the Lamb whose blood flows / Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on / O Lord, why have you forsaken me? / I got no
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Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair/Canticle
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“Scarborough Fair” is a traditional English folk ballad, detailing a list of tasks the speaker gives to his former lover to earn back his love, which are impossible to achieve (
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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 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 – 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 – 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
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“7 O'Clock News/Silent Night” is the twelfth and final track on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, a 1966 album by Simon and Garfunkel. The track consists of an overdubbing of two
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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 – A Church Is Burning
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[Chorus] / A church is burning / The flames rise higher / Like hands that are praying, aglow in the sky / Like hands that are praying, the fire is saying / "You can burn down my
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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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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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Paul Simon – The Side of a Hill
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[Verse 1] / 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 cruel war rages / And people forget what a child
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Cliff Richard – Homeward Bound
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I'm sitting in the railway station / Got a ticket to my destination / On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand / And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and
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Paul Simon – Homeward Bound
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[Verse 1] / I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination / On a tour of one-night-stands, my suitcase and guitar at hand / And every stop is neatly planned
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Gregorian – Scarborough Fair
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
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Phoebe Bridgers (Ft. Fiona Apple & Matt Berninger) – 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night
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“7 O'Clock News / Silent Night” is Phoebe Bridgers‘ third annual Christmas release, following the covers of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and “Christmas Song.” This time
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Lana Del Rey – Scarborough Fair
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[Verse 1] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / [Verse 2] / Tell her
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Daisy the Great (Ft. Kelley Nicole Dugan & Mina Walker) – Scarborough Fair
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[Verse 1] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / She once was a true love of mine / [Verse 2] / Tell her
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Glee Cast – Homeward Bound / Home
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“Homeward Bound/Home by Simon & Garfunkel/Phillip Phillips” is a mash-up featured in Thanksgiving, the eighth episode of Season Four. It is sung by the Alumni: Finn (Cory Monteith
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Chairmen of the Board – Give Me Just a Little More Time
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Give me just a little more time / And our love will surely grow / Give me just a little more time / And our love will surely grow / Life's too short to make a mistake / Let's think
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Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Covers
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See all of “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” by Simon & Garfunkel’s covers
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