simon garfunkel quotes

Original Latin lyrics:
Benedictus qui est venit
In nomine Domine
In nomine
In nomine
In nomine Domine
In nomine Domine
In nomine
In nomine
In nomine Domine

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Benedictus"

I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "El Condor Pasa"

Jubilation,
She loves me again,
I fall on the floor and I laughing.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Cecilia"

I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "El Condor Pasa"

He was singin' on his knees
An angry mob trailed along
They shot my brother dead
Because he hated what was wrong

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "He Was My Brother"

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather:
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
And gather it all in a bunch of heather,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair/Canticle"

New York, you got money on your mind
And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Heart In New York"

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Up in my bedroom,
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed,
Someone's taken my place.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Cecilia"

It's a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lae
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
The borders of our lives.
And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
And the dangled conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "The Dangling Conversation"

Jubilation,
She loves me again,
I fall on the floor and I laughing

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Cecilia"

And the pattern still remains
On the wall where darkness fell,
And it's fitting that it should,
For in darkness I must dwell.
Like the color of my skin,
Or the day that I grow old,
My life is made of patterns
That can scarcely be controlled.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Patterns"

My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Kathy's Song"

Old friends,
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends.
A newspaper blown though the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Old Friends"

I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored.
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd.
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind.
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed.
That's the hand I use, well, never mind!
I been Phil Spectored, resurrected.
I been Lou Adlered, Barry Sadlered.
Well, I paid all the dues I want to pay.
And I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce,
And all my wealth won't buy me health,
So I smoke a pint of tea a day.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Simple Desultory Philippic"

Hallelujah!
Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
Jesus christ is born
Down the lonely manger
The humble Christ was born
And God sent salvation
That blessed Christmas morn

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Go Tell It On The Mountain"

A poet reads his crooked rhyme
Holy, holy is his sacrament
Thirty dollars pays your rent
On Bleeker Street

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Bleeker Street"

A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "I Am a Rock"

Now I know you're not
the only starfish in the sea.
If I never hear your name again
it's all the same to me.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Red Rubber Ball"

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls.
And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Kathy's Song"

Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man grows older every day
It gives the world
Its saddest sound,
Its saddest sound.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "El Condor Pasa"

I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "El Condor Pasa"

“Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat”
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "America"

Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away

- as sung by Paul Simon "Slip Slidin' Away"

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 a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Ev'ry day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories
And ev'ry stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be,
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Homeward Bound"

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright.
I can't believe your song is gone so soon.
I barely learned the tune
So soon
So soon.
I'll remember Frank Lloyd Wright.
All of the nights we'd harmonize till dawn.
I never laughed so long
So long
So long.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright"

Cloudy,
Cloudy.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Cloudy"

In my little town
I grew up believing
God keeps His eye on us all
And He used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord I recall
My little town

- as sung by Paul Simon "My Little Town"

Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"

But I've got to creep down the alley way,
Fly down the highway,
Before they come to catch me I'll be gone.
Somewhere they can't find me.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Somewhere They Can't Find Me"

I knew a man, his brain was so small,
He couldn't think of nothing at all.
He's not the same as you and me.
He doesn't dig poetry. He's so unhip that
When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was.
The man ain't got no culture,
But it's alright, ma,
Everybody must get stoned.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Simple Desultory Philippic"