Simon and Garfunkel Lyrics

    ------ About the song EL CONDOR PASA (IF I COULD) performed by Simon and Garfunkel

My eldest brother introduced me to this song and explained that the song itself was banned in the Soviet Union. He went over each line and explained the meaning of each.
It's pretty easy to see the meaning of each line.
Sparrow vs snail = freedom than stuck to the ground moving slowly
Hammer vs nail = power to build than be forced to stay in one place
Forest vs street = growing, expanding than being mapped out and walked on
Basically it can be viewed as a protest against oppression of the spirit.

    ------ About the song The Sound Of Silence performed by Simon and Garfunkel

Think of this song with what you may know about alien abduction.To much to write ..if you dont know about it then you will never see my perspective but those that know about the phenomenon will understand quickly..read the part about the light splitting the sky,neon gods,people talk without speaking-how does the entity speak..not with its mouth...and so forth..I used to love this song until i relistened to it after my awakening..

    ------ About the song The Boxer performed by Simon and Garfunkel

I love singing with this song. Singable and always relevant to one's people life.I even sing with this song while playing with my guitar. Simply love it with admiration! Simon & Garfunkel are indeed best singers and performers. I want to imitate the way they sing and the way they beautifully expressed the message of this song. Great thanks! for simply being amazing and good inspirations to other people.

    ------ About the song El Condor Pasa performed by Simon and Garfunkel

I THINK EACH STANZA HAS AN OWN MEANING BUT AFTER ALL IT IS TALK ABOUT FREEDOM.FIRST STANZA IS ABOUT FREEDOM.SECAND IS ABOUT POWER.THIRD STANZA IS ABOUT death with dignity like a swan and at the end it is about knowledge like trees, after all if we have knowledge we can be free,powerful.

    ------ About the song SCARBOROUGH FAIR performed by Simon and Garfunkel

This song always reminds me of the great film featuring Dustin Hoffman way back in 1969. I still remember the many times I had seen its trailer, always starting with a long pole and the American flag at its top. Great duo indeed!

    ------ About the song Kathy's Song performed by Simon and Garfunkel

After all these years, I still think this is one of Paul's best songs. And it blows me away that way back then he sang about his doubts as a song writer, at the beginning of a long, prosperous, and prolific career as one of America's best song writers.

    ------ About the song I Am a Rock performed by Simon and Garfunkel



This is a poem where the narrator is trying to hide from the pains of life. He has been

wounded in love and feels that by shielding himself in the armor of isolation he might protect

his heart from breaking again. Paul Simon uses a clever devise in creating this poem (lyric).He

takes a line from a very famous poem,”No Man Is An Island” by John Donne, and reverses its

original intent.

In Donne's poem, he laments the loss of any human being as diminishing humanity. He

writes,” I am involved in mankind”. Simon's character feels that by detaching himself he rises

above his own involvement in life. He feels that by isolating he is better off.

The poem begins with the first two lines establishing a tone that remains throughout the

poem. It's not just a winters day in December, but it's deep and dark;foreboding. He establishes

not only is he alone, but this is through his own choosing. He looks at his decision as a

creation-”a Fortress Deep and Mighty” that he feels safe in. Safe enough to look out at a

“silent shroud of snow”.

He speaks of a disdain for friendship or for any outside contact when he states “I touch no

one and no-one touches me”. All the positive things in life, “laughter and loving” he wants no

further involvement with. He is trying to convince himself that his preparations are

impenetrable. He fears he may be wrong. This uneasiness is not spoken but the way it's related


in the way the song is formed it's felt. .

It's ironic that part of his emotional “bomb shelter” if you will, consist of his “books and

poetry”, these being two mainstays of mankind. Poetry is designed to provoke

emotions,

which is exactly what our narrator is hiding from. He speaks of love as a thing separate from

his existence. When he speaks of not wanting to “disturb its slumber” and having cried

because of love, he is exposing himself as fearful. He is truly afraid of feeling pain again.

At the end,when our narrator laments that “a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries”,it's

as though he envies those qualities. He creates in us a Pathos, because we all have felt, at one

time or another, the same way. No matter how hard we try, we cannot extricate ourselves from

the human experience. What we need aren't walls:what we need to learn is pain is part of

being alive. The true test of being Human is being able to feel,the ecstatic and the painful.

When we lose touch with that then truly, part of us dies.


“ So Send not to find,

For whom the bell tolls,

It tolls for thee.”

    ------ About the song SCARBOROUGH FAIR performed by Simon and Garfunkel

I am a stone cold hard rocker and I felt like I needed to mellow out one weekend,so I pulled up some Simon and Garfunkel.I listened to the live version at Central Park,and I literaly crapped my pants when I heard this song.It is the most mesmerizing and beautiful song I have ever heard in my life,bar none

    ------ About the song I Am a Rock performed by Simon and Garfunkel

When I was a teenager I could have written this song, if I had had more talent. I was terribly afraid of girls, and terribly infatuated with a few of them. It scared me half to death to ask for a date. If I was turned down I retreated to my fortress, badly wounded, and pretending that I felt nothing.

    ------ About the song The Sound Of Silence performed by Simon and Garfunkel

The song is about keeping silent when you know you should speak out against oppression and the sudden realization that you have committed this atrocity all your life. Then, the desire to convert the world followed by cold hard the realization that you can't.

- To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Abraham Lincoln)

- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

- In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. (George Washington)

- There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. (John F. Kennedy)

- The truth shall make you free. (Jesus Christ)