Paul Simon's
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Paul Simon Frankfurt 2002

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Little girl, you sure look good to me
Little kid dancin' in the grass
Live together in peace,
Lives a former talk-show host
Lives a pack of wolves
Lives like a mole in a motel
Lives the former talk-show host
Local girls' unspoken conversations
Locked in a struggle for the right combination of words in a melody line
Long ago it must be, I have a photograph
Long past the midnight curfew
Longing my life a--way
Look around you. All you see
Look around, leaves are brown
Look around, the grass is high
Look at that
Look at the stink about Japan
Look at this
look so dumb
Lookin' for fun and
Lookin' for the places, only they would know.
Looking back through the cracks in the door
Lord I recall
Lord knows who I will be
Lord let us pray,
Lord of the earthquake
Lord they fall
Lord, I am a surgeon
Lord, I'm a working man
Lord, this country's changed so fast
Lorraine
Lose you as I lose my light
Lose you as I lose my sight
Lost in the dangling conversation.
Lost in the dangling conversation
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
Love emerges and it disappears
Love is not a game
Love is not a toy
Love like lightning shaking till it moans
Love will do you in
Love's no romance
Love (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
Lovers merge and make a wish
Lunchtime isn't happy anymore
Lying there
lying underneath the stars
M-m, paraphernalia
M-m-m, I see it happening every day
M-m-m-m-m-m-m
Ma ma ma ma
Mail it today
Make a new plan, Stan
Make a wish and close your eyes: surprise, surprise, surprise.
Make her bed of stones
Make it up and write it down
Make my life into a movie
Make-out on the roofs
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
Makes you want to get down and crawl like a beggar
Makes you want to laugh out loud when you receive it
Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Maladies
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, I got your letter today
Mambulei mapulalei - hey
Mambulei mapulalei – hey
Mambulei mapulalei
Man, that hat is you!
Many dead, tonight it could be you
Many's the time I've been mistaken
Marries all beginnings and conclusions
May twelve angels guard you
May, she will stay,
Maybe and maybe and maybe some more
Maybe blindfold her
Maybe catch a couple of rodents
Maybe get a little conversation
Maybe he just had a late night
Maybe he was bright
Maybe I think too much for my own good
Maybe I think too much
Maybe I'll go down to the corner store
Maybe I'm a dog that's lost his bite
Maybe I'm blind to the fate of mankind
Maybe I'm laughing my way to disaster
Maybe I'm lost,
Maybe I'm wrong again
Maybe I've a reason to believe
Maybe it's his first time around
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe let us off the hook
Maybe my race has been run
Maybe not in my lifetime
Maybe some Christmas if I'm sick and alone
Maybe some of them had hopes of seeing me again
Maybe some virus or brokerage joke
Maybe that's a waste of angels I don't know
Maybe the heart is part of the mist
Maybe when we're older then we can date
Maybe you will find a love
Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for
Me and my buddies we are traveling people
Me and the girls from St. Augustine
Medicine is magical and magical is art think of
Melodies
Memphis Tennessee
Mi alma es Puerto Rico
Mi corazón es Puerto Rico
Misinformation followed us like a plague
Misinformation (2)
Mission music
Mm, It's plain to see you're on your own
Mm (2) (3)
Mmm. . .
Mmm...
Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.
Monday morning, sitting in the sun
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
More powerful than morphine
More than any ordinary jam.
Most folks never catch their stars
Most of all, you've got to hide it
Mothers weep
Motorcycle boots
Mountain passes slipping into stones
Moves like a fist through the traffic
Mr. Agrón? Senor Agrón?
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Much of what you say is true
Much too long.
Must endure
My . . .
My cards were useless as smoke
My children are laughing, not a whisper of care
My Chow Fon's gone
My crime an illusion,
My daddy got a big promotion
My daddy was a prominent frogman
My daddy was the family bassman
My days as short as they were wild.
My eyes can dimly see
My face, my race
My fated son,
My father was a fisherman
My favorite deejay on the radio
My feet were lead
My fingers just burn and ache
My friends all tell me that I'm not the same
My girlfriend's not the same
My hand can't touch a guitar string
My hands were numb
My head intercedes with my bodily needs
My heart can stand a disaster
My heart can take a disgrace
My heart goes boom boom boom
My heart still splashes
My life is made of patterns
My life never made much sense
My life seems unreal,
My life will never end,
My life's a mess
My life's so common it disappears
My little town
My loneliest evening.
My love for you's so overpowering
My love is brushing her long chestnut hair
My love, my love
My mama loves me, she loves me
my mama was the fisherman's friend
My mamma got a raise in pay
My mamma was an engineer
My mamma's in the Naval reserve
My mind dances and leaps in confusion.
My mind's distracted and diffused
My mom doing the laundry
My mother laughed the way some ladies' do
My mother loved to leave in style
My parents were children of immigrant stock
My radio tuned to
My religion
My school is over at half past four
My sex, my cheques
My son don't need me yet
My son is not the savage boy you see,
My story really begins a month ago
my sweet imagination
My teacher carry me home
My thoughts are many miles away
My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy,
My traveling companion is nine years old
My trembling bed
My wife came in and she said
My words trickle down, like a wound
Na força do amanhã -- In the power of tomorrow
Nadie nunca sabe
Names and religion comes just after date of birth.
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
Nature gives us shapeless shapes
Nature in the cross hairs
Naw, never going home again
Near the flowers.
Negotiations and love songs
Nervous when it's gone
Nervous when you own it
Never been lied to
Never been lonely
Never change your point of view.
Never did no harm
Never had to scuffle in fear
Never hides your broken bones
never roll at all
Never thought I could
Next thing you know it's Attica
Nhliziyo yami amakhaza asengi bulele
Nhliziyo yami somandla angibulele mama
Nhliziyo yami, angibulele amakhaza
Nhliziyo yami, nhliziyo yami
Nibbling on some clover
No good times, no bad times,
No I would not give you false hope
No joke, no joke
No long drawn blown out excuses
No Mexico
No more baby talk
No no no no, no, no, no.
No no no no, no, no,
No one can testify to all that you've been through
No one knows you like I do
No one lets their dreams be taken lightly
No One will comfort her
No promises to keep
no sparrow's nest,
No way in hell that smart ass spic goes free
No you don't have to lie to me
No, I cannot.
No, I cannot
No, I won't let friendship get in my way,
No, no, not really.
No, you don't know where your interest lies
No, you don't know where your interest
No (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)
Nobody but you, girl
Nobody but you
Nobody can know your heart the way I do
Nobody in this whole wide world
Nobody knew from time to time
Nobody needs my love
Nobody stop and scrutinize the plan
Nobody, girl
Nobody (2) (3) (4) (5)
Not a cloud was in the sky
Not a negative word was heard
Not really makin' it.
Not really, I mostly lived near my parents' home
Not too bold
Not too cold
Not too meek
Not while I'm in this institution
Nothing but good news
Nothing but the dead and dying
Nothing denied to
Nothing here changes your lives
Nothing is different, but everything's changed
Now from his pocket he quickly flashes
Now from the tunnel's stony womb
Now his head's erased
Now I am flyin
Now I sit by my window
Now I'm on the continental shelf
now many wars have come and gone
Now that my role-model is
Now the first time that I saw you I thought
Now the man and the woman
Now there's nothing but the memory
Now we're going steady,
Now you got it that's it
Now.
Nowhere to go but back to sleep
Numbers swirling thick and curious
O - oh, let's wait!"
O - oh, not yet!"
O Lord, Why have you forsaken me?
O my darling, darling Sal
O, no-o-o!
O-o-oh, And I remember
Obviously you're going to blow it,
Of a marriage contract
Of a now late afternoon,
Of changes in their cages,
Of cigarettes and magazines.
Of God and truth and right
Of his golden thread
Of making a man sign up on that
Of New Mexico
Of peace without illusions
Of the airfare.
Of the Belvedere Motel
Of the factories
Of the girl that I love,
of the high shoes of the old friends
Of the winter moonlight.
Of times we used to spend so happily
Of unpublished rhyme
Oh and it's the same old story
Oh baby, you don't know what I've done,
Oh come into my room and play
Oh Congresswoman, won't you tell that Congressman
Oh Congresswoman
Oh god
oh he surely must be happy with everything he's got
Oh I love you, girl.
Oh I wish that I could be Oh I wish that I could be Richard Cory
Oh I'm weary from waiting
Oh I (2) (3) (4)
Oh it's a crying shame
Oh Lord above, please hear my prayer
Oh my God
Oh my life seems unreal, my crime an illusion,
Oh my mama loves me, she loves me
Oh no no, oh no no
Oh no no. Oh no, no
Oh no, no, Oh no, no
Oh Papa Hobo
Oh René and Georgette Magritte
Oh the mother and child reunion
Oh these many years
Oh what a garden of delight
Oh what are we going to do
Oh, and I don't know when, oh, and I don't know when
Oh, and it's alright, it's all right, it's all right
Oh, baby, baby
Oh, but I'm all right, I'm all right
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
Oh, guardian angel
Oh, he rides around on a big white horse
Oh, honesty,
oh, honesty
Oh, I can't, I can't get used to something so right
Oh, I just got out in the nick of time
Oh, I love you.
Oh, I swear, I can't get used to something so right
Oh, in the courtrooms today
Oh, live together in peace?
Oh, Marion,
Oh, oh the mother and child reunion
oh, oh, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Oh, oh, oh, I'm going to be up for a while
Oh, oh, oh, if the plans were changed.
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, what a night
Oh, Papa Papa Hobo
Oh, right and wrong
Oh, seems like you've done it again
Oh, sorry my man, but the cape is not for sale. I've got a shipment coming in any day now, via the air mail. Yes, this item is going to be very fashionable, come the fall.
Oh, still crazy after all these years
Oh, still crazy
Oh, they just fall
Oh, what can you do
Oh, what have I done,
Oh, when my back is turned
Oh, when you wake, wake
Oh-oh, motorcycle
OH-WOH-OH
Old familiar ways
Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Old friends, old friends,
Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Old (2) (3) (4)
Older than the screams
Older than the teams
Olodumare is smiling in heaven
On a cold December evening
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
On a Sunday afternoon,
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
On all the crap I learned in high school
On Armistice Day
On Bleeker Street
On Christmas morning frank awakes
On such days I find I am longing for Puerto Rico
On the black pit town
On the evening news
On the houses through the trees,
On the last leg of the journey
On the leaves of a banyan tree
On the man with the girl by his side
On the morning of her wedding day
On the pitcher's mound
On the side of a hill a little cloud weeps
On the side of a hill (2)
On the soldiers by the side of the road,
On the street last night
On the trigger of a gun
On the very same day,
On the wall where darkness fell,
On this friend of mine who had
On this strange and mournful day
on wheels clicking silently
Once I was crazy and my ace in the hole
Once I was down in Chinatown
Once in a while from out of nowhere
Once my heart was filled with the love of a girl.
Once upon a time there was an ocean
One and one-half wandering Jews
One fine day
One half ate the forests and fields
one man's ceiling is another man's floor!
One man's ceiling is another man's floor
One moment alone (one moment alone)
One more year of traveling 'round this circuit
One of the sheep just wanders over
One trick is all that horse can do
One trick pony
One-trick pony (take me for a ride)
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony
One (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
Only God can say 'Forgive'
Only three generations off the boat.
OO OO, Bernadette (2)
Oo, Ah, Oo
Oo, I've been loving and loving and loving
Oo, little sleepy boy
OO, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oo, Oo-o
OO------I want you to be my girl (2)
Oo-ooo-oo wee I was about
Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah
Oo-wah Oo-wah
Oo-we Oo-we
Ooh, it's such a waste of energy
Ooh, never helped us get along
Ooh, oh, we were satisfied
OOH-OOH-OO-OOH-OOH-OO
Ooh-ooh-ooh, that's my story
Ooh-wah Ooh-wah
Ooh-wah Oow-wah
OOH-WOO-OO-OO
Oom bop a doom
Oom sop a doom
Ooo slip out the back, Jack
oooooooooEmmmmmmmmmmm
Open the book of my vanishing memory
Open up it's me again
Or a child's uneven scrawl.
Or camouflage all I am wary of
Or crawling out from under the heel of love
Or cut him 'til he cried out in his anger and his shame,
or driven to its knees
Or even the wind-blown dust
Or is this some morbid little lie
Or it's a dealer in drugs or in passion
Or just another love
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite
Or maybe there's no obligations now,
Or struggled from here to get there
Or the day that I grow old,
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Or what is it
Or you could buy some protection from me.
Or you will surely die
Orangutans are skeptical
Other people say no no
other Swans heard."
Others walk that borderline
Our limited supply is very nearly gone.
Our song
Out in the Indian Ocean somewhere
Outrageous the crime some human beings must endure.
Outrageous, the way they talk to you like you're some kind of clinical fool
Outta here
Over a mountain with a napkin of snow
Over and over again
Over the bridge of time
Over the crest of the mountain the moon begins its climb
Over the mountain the eagle flies
Over the mountain (2)
Over,
Over.
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa-pa
Pain you can't forget
Painting my hair the colour of mud.
Paints a pattern on my wall,
Papi, this ain't Mayagüez
Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme;
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
Passing through my life,
Passing through my life
Past the shadows dark and deep
Peaceful as a hurricane eye
Peaceful as a hurricane
People asking each other.
People aware of my history
People hearing without listening,
People hungry for the voice of God
People say I'm crazy
People say it all the time
People say she's crazy
People talking without speaking,
People writing songs that voices never share
Phantom figures in the dust.
Phantom figures in the dust
Pickin' up the punch lines,
Pig's supposed to laugh like that
Pig's supposed to look like that
Pigeons plot in secrecy,
Pigs, sheep and wolves
Planning my getaway
Playing games with the faces;
Plays a jingling banjo
Plays dedications but he doesn't know
Plays the guitar
Please don't give it to some madman
Please don't leave me yet
Please don't turn your eyes from me
Pointed finger-painted smile.
Police are going crazy
Polished its chrome
Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
power
Prayers offered in times of peace are silent conversations,
Preached the fire of the Pentecostal Church
Prepare themselves for sleep and feeding.
Preparing to leave the house of D.
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it.
Pressed in organdy;
Presto
Prior to this lifetime
Proof is the bottom line for everyone
Proof
Protect us from the new rain
Protesting this behavior
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.
Put our product to the test.
Rainbows in the high desert air
Raise your weary wings against the rain, my baby
Ramblin' on the white shores far across the sea
Ran to call the cops.
Rattling the teacups,
Reach in the dark
Reach in the darkness
reading from the Bible
Rearranging my position
Red beans and rice from kitchen windows
Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight.
Reflecting the glow (2)
Rehearsing what I'll say, my coin returns
Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style,
Release the spirit with a whoop and a shout
Remain in contact
Remedies
Remember a sadder day
Remember me to one who lives there.
Remember: one man's ceiling is another man's floor!
Remembering the names of the constellations
René and Georgette Magritte
Rest my head upon that shore
Resting in my arms again.
restless in anticipation
Return to their natural coasts
Returned to their hotel suite
Returning
Richard Cory at the opera Richard Cory at a show
Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head
Ride that spiral highway one more roll
Ride the spiral highway one more roll
Ride! Ride!
Riding on this rolling bus
Riding with my baby, don't you know I'm real cool
Right and wrong
River water, holy water
road we're traveling on
Roll across the skies
Roll on, roll on
Roll on. roll on
Romance is a heartbreaker
Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea
Round yon virgin mother and child
Rubbing and doing that new dance
Run that body down?
Running out their back doors
running through young veins
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair
Rushed out to watch the sky,
Russians up in rocket ships
Sad as a lonely little wrinkled balloon
safe within his silent socket
Said officer MacDougal in dismay:
Said the judge to the court reporter
Said, "she's just what you're looking for"
Sail on by.
Sail on silvergirl,
Sailed across the China Sea
Sailing away to sea
Salvador, the afternoon sunlight is folding around us,
Sane people go crazy on you
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
Satin summer nights (2)
Satisfied.
Saudocoes -- Greetings!
Saving my money
Say "No man, that was not
Say ain't we walking down the same street together
Say what a fool I must be
Say you will, say you will
Say you won't leave me for no other man
Say you won't, say you won't
Say you'll love me for the way I am
Say you'll nourish me with your tenderness
Say you'll take me to your loving breast
Sayin' let's get him
Saying, "I won't be a slave anymore."
Says "Ah, what the hell"
Says leave if you want
Scatterlings and orphanages
Scoot down the road
Se esmera, coração -- Do your best, heart
Searching for another truth
Searching for the emerald sea
Seated on the floor
See how he dances
See how he loops from side to side
See how he prances
See how they shine.
See what I have seen
See you, me and Julio
Seeing me and Julio
Seems like I ain't never had
Send me a card,
Send their battered dreams to heaven, to heaven
Separated from the flock
September, I'll remember.
Serious numbers are easy to please
Serious numbers will always be heard
Serious numbers will speak to us always
Serious numbers
Será breve ou será grande -- It will be brief or it will be great
Será sujo, será sonho -- It will be dirty, it will be a dream
Será tudo ou sera nãoa -- It will be all or it will be nothing
Será útil, será tarde -- It will be useful, it will be late
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends
shadowed by the exit light
Shake a rattle at the skies
Sharing a parkbench quietly
She burned like a bride
She burns in bed
She burns like a flame
She called him "Speedoo"
She can't sleep now
She cannot stop
She comes back to tell me she's gone,
She cooks a meal or two
She don't try to hide it,
She drove across the border
She even kissed the TV set
She fell asleep in a washing machine
She fights a fever
She get down on her knees and hug me (ahh a-a-ah)
She get down on her knees and hug me
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes,
She hasn't had time for me
She hears the clouds
She is like a top
She is soft, she is warm,
She is sorrow, sorrow
She is the kind of a girl
She jumps back
She knows what she wants to do.
She laughed so hard
She lived upstairs from him
She looked me over
She love me, love me, love me, love me
She makes the sign of a teaspoon
She means we're bouncing into Graceland,
She moved so easily
She moves on
She needs to talk so
She once was a true love of mine.
She rocks me like the rock of ages
She said a bad day's when I lie in bed
She said a good day
She said bye-bye baby, bye-bye
She said don't I know you
She said he was a most peculiar man
She said I'll only be gone for a while
She said it grieves me so to see you in such pain
She said it's really not my habit to intrude
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy;
She said there's something about you
She said who am I
She said why don't we both just sleep on it tonight
She said you've taken me for granted
She said, "Hey, babe, but there is one thing more
She said, "Hey, babe, I gotta lot to do,
She said, "I'm sorry if I passed you by,
She said:
She says "Maybe these emotions are
She says "Ooh my storybook lover
she says a wartime prayer
She says she knows about jokes
She says the joke is on me
She seemed so glad to see me
She sees the eye of a hurricane
She takes the corner that's all she takes
She was a highschool queen
She was a wonder in grew and bloom
She was attempted to be at seven in town
She was baking a cinnamon pie
She was beautiful as Southern skies
She was his only girl
She was married to someone
She was physically forgotten
She's a rich girl
She's beautiful. Beautiful
She's gone, gone, gone
She's gone (2)
She's pretty as a prayerbook,
She's so cool
She's so free
She's so hot
She's so light
Sheep in the meadow
Sheep's dead
Shook some hands then adios Brooklyn amigos
Shooting to kill
Shopliftin clothes
Shout about it,
Shoves a little bump into the momentum
Show me where she is and take me there
Shufflin brown tunes
Side by side
Silale maweni
Silence leads the spirit
Silence like a cancer grows.
Silent Eyes
Silent night
Silently for me.
Silently sharing the same fears
Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby
Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
Similarly made. Similarly sold
Since he's been here he's followed every rule
Since I don't know when
Since the Lone Teen Ranger came around
Sing rainwater, sea water
Sing Ta na na
Singenze njani
Singin' late in the evening, and all the girls out on the stoops, yeah
singing sacred songs and
Sisters grieve.
Sit down, shut up, think about God
Sits by a rock
Sitting on a sofa
Sitting on the windowsill
Sizing the room up
Sleep all day
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.
Sleeps on straw and calls it a rug
Slice through the windows and cut off the sun.
Slides through the metal detector
Slip down a water slide
Slip out the back, Jack
Slip slidin' away
Slipping away
Sloped into the room
Slow down, you movin' too fast
Slow motion
Small change and sunlight, then I left these streets for good.
Smells like hunting season's here
Smiled reassuringly
Smiling faces try to understand
Smiling in heaven I do believe
Snow was fallin', drifts were high
Snowman sittin' in the sun doesn't have time to waste
So all you 'partment fools
So far away from home, so far away from home
So God bless the goods we was given
So goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
So goodbye, goodbye
So he'd never wake up!
So here's how the story goes
So I agree
So I ask myself this question
so I could hock it
So I go on and trust in you
so I got to whisper way down low
So I laid around in my swaddling clothes
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
So I never lost my self-control
So I sent away for his photograph
So I shifted my heart for its safety sake"
So I smoke a pint of tea a day.
So I walked right up to her
So I went to my drugstore