ŠPaul Simon, released on The Rhythm of the Saints, 1990
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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 be lost and love will find you
When the road bends
And the song ends
She moves on
.
I know the reason I
Feel so blessed
My heart still splashes
Inside my chest, but she
She is like a top
She cannot stop
She moves on
.
A sympathetic stranger
Lights a candle in the middle of the night
Her voice cracks
She jumps back
But she moves on
.
She says "Ooh my storybook lover
You have underestimated my power
As you shortly will discover"
.
Then I fall to my knees
Shake a rattle at the skies
I'm afraid that I'll be taken
Abandoned, forsaken
In her cold coffee eyes
.
She can't sleep now
The moon is red
She fights a fever
She burns in bed
She needs to talk so
We take a walk
Down in the moonlight
.
She says "Maybe these emotions are
As near to love as love will ever be"
So I agree
.
Then the moon breaks
She takes the corner that's all she takes
She moves on
.
She says "Ooh my storybook lover
You have underestimated my power
As you shortly will discover"
.
Then I fall to my knees
I grow weak, I go slack
As if she captured the breath of my
voice in a bottle
And I can't catch it back
.
But 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
.
