Paul Simon

[fox69]

"Beautiful"

"Beautiful"



Snowman sittin' in the sun
Doesn't have time to waste.
He had a little bit too much fun,
Now his head's erased.

Back in the house,
Family of three:
Two doin' the laundry
And one in the nursery.

We brought brand new baby
Back from Bangladesh,
Thought we'd name her Emily.

She's beautiful, beautiful.
Beautiful, beautiful.

Yes sir, head's erased,
Brain's a bowl of jelly.
Hasn't hurt his sense of taste,
Judging from his belly.

But back in the house,
Family of four now:
Two doing the laundry,
And two on the kitchen floor.

We brought a brand new baby back
From mainland China,
Sailed across the China Sea.

She's beautiful, beautiful.
Beautiful, beautiful.

Go-kart sittin' in the shade:
You don't need a ticket to ride,
It's summertime, summertime,
Slip down a water slide.

Little kid dancin' in the grass,
Legs like rubber band.
It's summertime, summertime.
There's a line at the candy stand.

Keep and eye on them children,
Eye on them children in the pool.
You'd better,
Keep and eye on them children,
Eye on them children in the pool.

We brought a brand new baby
Back from Kosovo.
That was nearly seven years ago.
He cried all night.
Could not sleep.
His eyes were bright,
Dark and deep.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

 

[fox69]

"Bernadette"

"Bernadette"


[SAL]
Whoa--I got time on my hands tonight
You're the girl of my dreams
When I'm near you my future seems bright
OO--I want you to be my girl
I want you to be my movie
I am Sal Mineo and I need you so
Sweet Bernadette

Whoa---You got style from your hair to
your heels
Though my words may be jumbled
Still I'm telling you just how it feels
I love you

[SAL & BERNADETTE]
I love you
And the breeze that wraps around you

[SAL]
Satin summer nights

[BERNADETTE]
Satin summer nights

[SAL & BERNADETTE]
A girl I can't forget

[SAL]
Whoa--You're the smile of the moon
Bernadette

[SAL & BERNADETTE]
Dom Dom Dom Doo
Well-a well I'm home
Dom Dom Dom Doo
Well-a well I'm home

[SAL]
Wop, Wop. Wop, Wop
Come with me
There's a place I want you to see

When the leaves are dark
I've got a hiding place in Central Park
And the sky is a coat of diamonds

There's a wooden cross over my bed
The city is lit with candles
They're shining for you Bernadette.

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa
OO OO, Bernadette

[SAL & BERNADETTE]
Dom Dom Dom Doo
Well-awell I'm home
Dom Dom Dom Doo
Weil-a well I'm home

[SAL]
Wop, Wop, Wop, Wop, Wop.

 

[fox69]

"Born At The Right Time"

"Born At The Right Time"



Down among the reeds and rushes
A baby boy was found
His eyes as clear as centuries
His silky hair was brown

Never been lonely
Never been lied to
Never had to scuffle in fear
Nothing denied to
Born at the instant
The church bells chime
And the whole world whispering
Born at the right time

Me and my buddies we are travelling people
We like to go down to restaurant row
Spend those Euro-dollars
All the way from Washington to Tokyo
I see them in the airport lounge
Upon their mother's breast
They follow me with open eyes
Their uninvited guest

Never been lonely
Never been lied to
Never had to scuffle in fear
Nothing denied to
Born at the instant
The church bells chime
And the whole world whispering
Born at the right time

Too many people on the bus from the airport
Too many holes in the crust of the earth
The planet groans
Every time it registers another birth

But among the reeds and rushes
A baby girl was found
Her eyes as clear as centuries
Her silky hair was brown

Never been lonely
Never been lied to
Never had to scuffle in fear
Nothing denied to
Born at the instant
The church bells chime
And the whole world whispering
Born at the right time

 

[fox69]

"Born In Puerto Rico"

"Born In Puerto Rico"


[SALVADOR]
I was born in Puerto Rico
We came here when I was a child
Before I reached the age of sixteen
I was running with the gang and we were wild

He keeps looking but he don't recognize me.
Some guy from Lexington or Park
Red beans and rice from kitchen windows
Supper-time and the barrio is dark.

No one knows you like I do
Nobody can know your heart the way I do
No one can testify to all that you've been through
But I will.

[SAL & THE VAMPIRES]
I was born in Puerto Rico
And my blood is Taino
Spanish Caribbean my soul

[SALVADOR]
We came here wearing summer clothes in winter
Hearts of sunshine in the cold
Your family rented this apartment
You'd watch the street lamps from your perch
In the sacramental hour your stepfather in black
Preached the fire of the Pentecostal Church
No one knows you like I do
Nobody can know your heart the way I do
No one can testify to all that you've been through
But this will.

[SAL & THE VAMPIRES]
I was born in Puerto Rico
Came here when I was a child.

[SALVADOR]
Small change and sunlight, then I left these streets
for good.
My days as short as they were wild.

[CARLOS APACHE]
I'm Carlos Apache

[ANGEL SOTO]
Angel Soto

[FRENCHY CORDERO]
Frenchy Cordero

[BABU CHARLIE CRUZ]
Babu Charlie Cruz

[SALVADOR]
Your features blurred in every grainy photo
And fading headline of the Daily News

Wiltwyck School for Criminal Children
Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,
Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,
Greenhaven

[SALVADOR]
Twenty years inside, today you're free.

You cannot even read your story
The pages piling up in shame
Before the words released you, the guard would
kill the light
The night you took The Capeman for your name.

[CHORUS]
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico

[LAZARUS]
Yo naci en Puerto Rico
Yo naci en Puerto Rico
Mi corazon es Puerto R.ICO
Mi alma es Puerto Rico

 

[fox69]

"Can I Forgive Him"

"Can I Forgive Him"


[ESMERALDA]
I am Esmeralda Agron, Senora.
I know I've no right to speak.
My son is not the savage boy you see,
The cape, the sneer, the slicked-back hair
It hides the child I nursed and bathed, Senora.
Please don't turn your eyes from me
Your son, gone to God, and mine to blame
My fated son,
He too is gone
The state will see to that, I am sure, Senora
The state will see to that, I am sure.

[1ST MOTHER]
You Spanish people, you come to this country
Nothing here changes your lives
Ungrateful immigrants asking for pity
When all of your answers are knives
This city makes a cartoon of a crime

Capes and umbrellas the glorification of slime
I have to face this horror, Senora.

[2ND MOTHER]
My religion
Asks me to pray for the murderer's soul
But I think you'd have to be
Jesus on the cross
To open your heart after such a loss
Can I forgive him?
Can I forgive him?
No, I cannot
Can I forgive him
No, I cannot

Friends become strangers
Compassion is hard to express in words
The trembling flowers they bring
Fear in the roots and the stem
What happened to me they know could
happen to them.
Can I forgive him
No, I cannot
Can I forgive him
No

[ESMERALDA]
Only God can say 'Forgive'
His son too received a knife
But we go on, we have to live
With this cross we call our life

[1ST MOTHER]
Feels like a bomb fell
And wave after wave come the aftershocks

[2ND MOTHER]
You can't believe that it's true
There must be some mistake
You drift through this nightmare from which you
can't wake

[BOTH MOTHERS]
Can I forgive him?
Can I forgive him,
No, I cannot

Can t forgive him?
Can I forgive him, no, I cannot
Can I forgive him?
Can 1 forgive him, no, I cannot
Can I forgive him
No, I cannot.

 

[fox69]

"Can't Run But"

"Can't Run But"



I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but
I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but

A cooling system
Burns out in the Ukraine
Trees and umbrellas
Protect us from the new rain
Armies of engineers
To analyze the soil
The food we contemplate
The water that we boil

I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but
I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but
Oo-we Oo-we

I had a dream about us
In the bottles and the bones of the night
I felt a pain in my shoulder blade
Like a pencil point? A love bite?
A couple was rubbing against us
Rubbing and doing that new dance
The man was wearing a jacket and jeans
The woman was laughing in advance

I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but
I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but

A winding river
Gets wound around a heart. Pull it
Tighter and tighter
Until the muddy waters part
Down by the river bank
A blues band arrives
The music suffers
The music business thrives

I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but
I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but
Oo-we Oo-we

 

[fox69]

"Cars Are Cars"

"Cars Are Cars"



Cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars
All over the world
Similarly made
Similarly sold
In a motorcade
Abandoned when they're old Cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars
All over the world
Engine in the front
Jack in the back
Wheels take the brunt
Pinion and a rack
Cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars
All over the world
But people are strangers
They change with the curve
From time zone to time zone
As we can observe
They shut down their borders - And think they're immune
They stand on their differences
And shoot at the moon
But cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars
All over the world
Drive 'em on the left
Drive 'em on the right
Susceptible to theft
In the middle of the night
Cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars
All over the world
I once had a car
That was more like a home
I lived in it, loved In It
Polished Its chrome
If some of my homes
Had been more
like my car
I probably wouldn't have
Travelled this far
Cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars
All over the world
Cars are cars' All over the world

 

[fox69]

"Congratulations"

"Congratulations"



Congratulations
Oh, seems like you've done It again
And I ain't had such misery
Since I don't know when
Oh, and I don't know when, oh, and I don't know when

I notice so many people
Slipping away
And many more waiting in the lines
In the courtrooms today
In the courtrooms today

Love is not a game
Love Is not a toy
Love's no romance
Love will do you in
And love will wash you out
And needless to say
You won't stand a chance, you won't stand a chance
I'm hungry for learning

Won't you answer me please
Can a man a woman
Live together in peace
Oh, live together in peace

 

[fox69]

"Crazy Love, Vol. II"

"Crazy Love, Vol. II"



Fat Charlie the Archangel
Sliped into the room
He said I have no opinion about this
And I have no opinion about that
Sad as a lonely little wrinkled balloon
He said well I don't claim to be happy about this, boys
And I don't seem to be happy about that

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of this crazy love

She says she knows about jokes
This time the joke is on me
Well, I have no opinion about that
And I have no opinion about me

Somebody could walk into this room
And say your life is on fire
It's all over the evening news
All about the fire in your life
On the evening news

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love

Fat Charlie the Archangel
Files for divorce
He says well this will eat up a year of my life
And then there's all that weight to be lost
She says the joke is on me
I say the joke is on her
I said I have no opinion about that
Well, we'll just have to wait and confer

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of this crazy love

 

[fox69]

"Darling Lorraine"

"Darling Lorraine"



The first time I saw her
I couldn't be sure
But the sin of impatience
Said "She's just what you're looking for"
So I walked right up to her
And with the part of me that talks
I introduced myself as Frank
From New York
New York

She's so hot
She's so cool
I'm not
I'm just a fool in love with Darling Lorraine

All my life I've been a wanderer
Not really, I mostly lived near my parents home
Anyway Lorraine and I got married
Ant the usual marriage stuff
Then one day she says to me
From out of the blue
She says, "Frank, I've had enough
Romance is a heartbreaker
I'm not meant to be a homemaker
And I'm tired of being Darling Loraine"

What!? you don't love me anymore?
What!? you're walking out the door?
What!? you don't like the way I chew?
Hey, let me tell you
You're not the woman that I wed
You say you're depressed but you're not
You just like to stay in bed
I don't need you darling Lorraine
Darling Lorraine
Lorraine
I long for your love

Financially speaking
I guess I'm a washout
Everybody's buy and sell
And sell and buy
That's what the whole thing's all about
If it had not been Lorraine
I'd have left her long ago
I should have been a musician
I love the piano

She's so light
She's so free
I'm tight, well, that's me
But I feel so good
With Darling Lorraine

On Christmas morning Frank awakes
To find Loraine has made a stack of pancakes
They watch the television, husband and wife
All afternoon "It's a wonderful life"

What!? you don't love me anymore?
What!? you're walking out the door?
What!? you don't like the way I chew?
Hey let me tell you
You're not the woman that I wed
Gimme my robe I'm going back to bed
I'm sick to death of you Lorraine

Darling Lorraine
Lorraine
Her hands like wood
The doctor was smiling
But the news wasn't good

Darling Lorraine
Please don't leave me yet
I know you're in pain
Pain you can't forget
Your breathing is like an echo of our love
Maybe I'll go down to the corner store
And buy us something sweet
Here's an extra blanket honey
To wrap around your feet
All the trees were washed with april rain
And the moon in the meadow
Took Darling Lorraine