sorry i'll stop this is what the inside of my head is like
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
that whole verse:
And I believe these are the days of lasers in the jungle,Lasers in the jungle somewhere,Staccato signals of constant information,A loose affiliation of millionairesAnd billionaires and baby,These are the days of miracle and wonder,
― max, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
xp!!
xxxxp ^^^ also "the bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
she said losing love is like a window in your heartand everybody sees you're blown apart, everybody feels the wind blow
Separating these two seems wrong (also I don't remember that "and" being there)
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i know this album so well its scary, like the back of my hand
there's no "and"
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the bomb in the baby carriage line is great because that whole verse is setting this scene and that line is like boom it's over here's the chorus.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
'everybody sees youre blown apart'
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
staccato signals a pulse of information
(am i remembering right??)
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought it was constant
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
love the sounds of the lines & twists & turns in meaning they make vs your expectations of how a lyric 'should' resolve
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I see losing this album is like a window in your heart
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
ha i just realized i always heard that line as "oozing love"
― max, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
that's crazy max
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
also gross
mixed metaphors are beneath Simon.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
(yeah, lyrics are a smidge off -- I googled, copied, cut some line breaks; ah well)
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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Exactly, and that's the point of the line -- the window in your heart is what allows everyone to see that you're blown apart and feel the wind blow.
And that's probably my favorite line in the song.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
on the 2002 tour the t shirts had
It's a turn-around jump shotIt's everybody jump startIt's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
on them. but that's not from this song.
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"everybody sees you're blown apart" followed by "everybody feels the wind blow" is genius; i get chills every time. it's partly the music at that moment, but still.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Only just realized the double meaning of "national guitar" in the first line
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the double meaning?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought it was a straight ref to resonator guitars
1) Reference to National brand guitars2) the delta as a blues capital is kind of like a 'national' guitar of the united states -- sort of loose and abstract I guess but it occurred to me
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
ok that's funny, i think i heard it that way when i was a kid before i knew what a reso guitar was--glad it has occurred to others!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
My misheard Paul Simon line from childhood is "You don't have to be cordouroy."
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Agree about the "double meaning" of National guitar. Don't see how you could possibly read it as just one thing or the other at all.
"as if i didn't know that, etc." is a pretty powerful turnaround and gets my vote
Favorite lines from the whole record are the
Staccato signals of constant information,A loose affiliation of millionairesAnd billionaires and baby,
He is surrounded by the sound The soundCattle in the marketplace Scatterlings and orphanages He looks around, aroundHe sees angels in the architecture Spinning in infinity He says Amen! and Hallelujah!
despite not being very religious myself : )
― kkvgz, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't see how you could possibly read it as just one thing or the other at all.
you could not know what a National guitar is
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
― max, Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:36 (49 minutes ago) Permalink
looool me too
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: okay, good point.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well that's one way to lose these walking blues: diamond on the soles of your shoes.
― SongOfSam, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
diamondS! (sorry)
― SongOfSam, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
best line(s) in that song is "she said honey take me dancing/but they ended up by sleeping in a doorway/by the bodegas and the lights on upper Broadway"
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hurting OTM. that line has haunted me for much of my life. unfair that it's not only broken up but listed twice, ensuring a tragic split of the votes.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
as if i'd never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead
because I've noticed that too; or to put it a little differently, because the cadence of the last seven words brushes her hair, as though he is going through the motions of brushing her hair with his voice: air brushing, if you will.
― Euler, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yes that's true!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
word painting
"Ghosts and empty sockets" would probably be my runner-up, from this song.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
One of the most perfectly crafted songs I know of. Just gorgeous. Gives me chills every time, even now.
― ImprovSpirit, Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"she said honey take me dancing/but they ended up by sleeping in a doorway/by the bodegas and the lights on upper Broadway"
yeah this for sure!! the way the syllables dance off each other is so flawless -- my favorite rappers work the same way
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
to join the chorus: one of my favorite, favorite songs. it was then, twenty-some years ago, and still is now. there isn't a bad line in it, and at least half are beautiful, so hard to choose over the rest. finally went with "as if i didn't know that..." because it's the point on which the song hinges, opening from the specifics of a moment onto a larger field of emotion and association. but it's one among many, and probably too safe a choice besides.
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
human trampoline. Just love that line. I bet it's a tough one to cover, he always makes his phrasing seem so natural but it's so tough to carry across convincingly. That whole record just fits so many syllables with such ease.
― owenf, Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNIEtwZ1OYQ&feature=search
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
aw paul simon is so small
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
after that show Willie put Paul in his shirt pocket, then rolled him up and smoked him.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
did willie nelson feel like he could not sing with authority about a girl from new york city so he had to change it to austin, texas?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
he did a nice job with my favorite line
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe he should have worked new york city into the line somehow.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
she comes back to tell me she's gone 0
The declarative sentence loses.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd just like to point out that there is a tie for first place here
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Reading these lyrics out, they read like Dan Bejar lyrics.
― altered boners (rennavate), Thursday, 26 August 2010 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Which is unfortunate, because I love that line.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 August 2010 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread has sparked a total renewed interest in this album, appreciating the lyrics like never before. Thinking I might go through some of them with my advanced TELF students next week.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 27 August 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember my mom asking me to explain the lyrics to the Myth of Fingerprints to her when I was 13
― I drink your milksteak (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 August 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Something I wrote about this song last year.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 28 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFESqwh0ks
― max, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
btw i have never seen this:
In 1988, Simon released a video for the song to promote his greatest hits compilation, Negotiations and Love Songs. The video features an introduction by rappers Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. The video depicts adults interacting with the youth of an inner city schoolyard where they dealt drugs. It shows Simon playing basketball and baseball with the children, and it also features basketball player Spud Webb, baseball legend Mickey Mantle, and football coach/commentator John Madden giving tips to young athletes.[1]
― max, Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:29 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(thats re: me and julio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O859wd7H6h8
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
like i said before this was sort of the first "adult" album i started to kind of understand, it made me almost feel older, like some weird vicarious sense of 'mono no aware' when i was 11. and an epic song.
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Me and Julio video is hilarious.
Graceland doc looks a little too polite, but in any case this is my all-time favorite album so I'll watch.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
wow cool!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link