Paul Simon - Live from Webster Hall, New York

CROWD CHEERS

Thank you. Hello, my friends.

MUSIC: "THE OBVIOUS CHILD"

# Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

# Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite

# I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

# I don't expect to sleep the night

# Some people say a lie is just a lie

# But I say Why deny the obvious child?

# Why deny the obvious child?

# And in remembering a road sign

# I'm remembering a girl when I was young

# And we said "These songs are true

# "These days are ours These tears are free," and hey now

# The cross is in the ballpark

# The cross is in the ballpark

# We had a lot of fun Had a lot of money

# We had a little son Thought we'd call him Sonny

# Sonny gets married and moves away

# Sonny has a baby and bills to pay

# Sonny gets sunnier day by day

# By day, by day, by day

# I've been waking up at sunrise

# I've been following the light across my room

# I watch the night receive the room of my day

# Some people say the sky is just the sky

# But I say Why deny the obvious child?

# Why deny the obvious child?

# Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself

# How it's strange that some rooms are like cages

# Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf

# And he idly thumbs through the pages

# Some have died

# Some have fled from themselves

# Or struggled from here to get there

# Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls

# He runs his hands through his thinning brown hair

# Well I'm accustomed to a smoother ride

# Or maybe I'm a dog that's lost its bite

# I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

# I don't expect to sleep the night

# Some people say a lie is just a lie

# But I say The cross is in the ballpark

# Why deny the obvious child?

# Ooh, ooh-ooh

# Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

# Ooh-ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh, ooh

# Ooh ooh, Ooh-wee-ooh. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "DAZZLING BLUE"

# Truth or lie The silence is revealing

# An empty sky

# A hidden mound of stone

# But the CAT scan's eye sees what the heart's concealing

# Nowadays when everything is known

# Maybe love's an accident or destiny is true

# But you and I were born beneath a star of dazzling blue

# Dazzling blue

# Miles apart, though the miles can't measure distance

# Worlds apart on a rainy afternoon

# But the road gets dirty and it offers no resistance

# So turn your amp up and play your lonesome tune

# Maybe love's an accident or destiny is true

# But you and I were born beneath a star of dazzling blue

# Dazzling blue

# Dazzling blue, roses red

# Fine white linen to make a marriage bed

# And we'll build a wall that nothing can break through

# And dream our dreams of dazzling blue

# Sweet July

# And we drove the Montauk Highway

# And walked along the cliffs above the sea

# And we wondered why and imagined it was someday

# And that is how the future came to be

# Dazzling blue, roses red

# Fine white linen to make a marriage bed

# And we'll build a wall that nothing can break through

# And dream our dreams of dazzling blue. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION"

# I would not give you false hope

# On this strange and mournful day

# When the mother and child reunion

# Is only a motion away

# Oh, little darling of mine

# I can't for the life of me

# Remember a sadder day

# I know they say let it be

# But it just don't work out that way

# And the course of a lifetime runs

# Over and over again

# But I would not give you false hope

# On this strange and mournful day

# When the mother and child reunion

# Is only a motion away

# Oh, little darling of mine

# I just can't believe it's so

# Though it seems strange to say

# I never been laid so low

# In such a mysterious way

# The course of a lifetime runs

# Over and over again

# But I would not give you false hope

# On this strange and mournful day

# When the mother and child reunion

# Is only a motion away

# Oh, the mother and child reunion

# It's only a motion away

# Now, the mother and child reunion

# Is only a moment away

# Ah, the mother and child reunion

# It's only a motion away

# The mother and child reunion

# It's only a moment away

# Oh, little darling of mine. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "THAT WAS YOUR MOTHER"

# A long time ago, yeah, Before you was born, dude

# When I was still single, And life was great

# I held this job as a travelling salesman

# That kept me moving from state to state

# Well, I'm standing on the corner of Lafayette

# State of Louisiana

# I'm wondering where a city boy can go

# To get a little conversation Drink a little red wine

# Check out the Cajun girl She's dancing to Zydeco

# Et toi!

# Along come a young girl She's pretty as a prayer book

# She's sweet as an apple on Christmas Day

# I said, "Good gracious! Could this be my luck?

# "If that's my prayer book, Lord, let us pray!"

# So, I'm standing on the corner of Lafayette, state of Louisiana

# I'm wondering what a city boy could do

# To get her in a conversation Maybe drink a little red wine

# Dance to the music of Clifton Chenier

# King of the Bayou!

# That was your mother That was your father

# Before you was born, dude, When life was great

# You are the burden of my generation

# I sure do love you But let's get that straight

# Well, I'm standing on the corner of Lafayette

# Across the street from The Public Heading down to the Lone Star Cafe

# To get a little conversation Drink a little red wine

# Dance to the music of Clifton Chenier

# Et toi! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Et toi!

MUSIC: "HEARTS AND BONES"

# One and one-half wandering Jews

# Free to wander wherever they choose

# Are travelling together in the Sangre de Cristo

# In the Blood of Christ Mountains of New Mexico

# On the last leg of a journey they started a long time ago

# The arc of a love affair

# Rainbows in the high desert air

# Mountain passes slipping into stones

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones

# Thinking back to the season before

# Looking back through the cracks in the door

# Two people were married, The act was outrageous

# The bride was contagious She burned like a bride

# These events may have had some effect

# On the man with the girl by his side

# The arc of a love affair

# His hands rolling down her hair

# Love like lightning Shaking till it moans

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones

# And whoa-oh-oh

# She said, "Why

# "Why don't we drive through the night?

# "We'll wake up down in Mexico"

# "Oh, I

# "I don't know nothin' about, nothin' about no Mexico"

# "And tell me why

# "Why won't you love me for who I am, where I am?"

# He said, "Cos that's not the way the world is, baby

# "This is how I love you, baby

# "This is how I love you, baby"

# One and one-half wandering Jews

# Returned to their natural coasts

# To resume old acquaintances and step out occasionally

# And speculate who had been damaged the most

# Easy time will determine if these consolations will be their reward

# The arc of a love affair

# Waiting to be restored

# You take two bodies and you twirl them into one

# Their hearts and their bones won't come undone

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones

# Hearts and bones. #

MUSIC: "MYSTERY TRAIN"

# Well, the train I ride

# It's sixteen coaches long

# Well, that train I ride

# Sixteen coaches long

# Well, it's taken my baby, now

# A long way from home

# Train, train

# Comin' round, round the bend

# Train, train

# Comin' round, round the bend

# Well, it's taken my baby once

# Now it's going to do it again

# Ooooh-hoo

# Ooooh

# Ooooh-ooh-ooh

# Ooooh. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

One, two, three, four.

MUSIC: "REWRITE"

# I'm workin' on my rewrite, that's right

# I'm going to change the ending

# Going to throw away my title and toss it in the trash

# Every minute after midnight

# All the time I'm spending

# Is just for working on my rewrite, that's right

# Going to turn it into cash

# I've been working at the car wash

# I consider it my day job

# Cos it's really not a pay job

# But that's where I am

# Everybody says the old guy working at the car wash

# Hasn't got a brain cell left since Vietnam

# But I say help me, help me, help me, help me

# Thank you! I'd no idea that you were there

# When I said help me, help me Help me, help me

# Oh, thank you for listening to my prayer

# I'm workin' on my rewrite, that's right

# I'm going to change the ending

# I'm going to throw away my title

# And toss it in the trash

# Every minute after midnight

# All the time I'm spending

# Is just for working on my rewrite, that's right

# I'm going to turn it into cash

# I'll eliminate the pages where the father has a breakdown

# And he has to leave the family

# He really meant no harm

# I'm going to substitute a car chase

# And a race across the rooftops

# Where the father saves the children

# And he holds them in his arms

# And I say help me, help me help me, help me

# Thank you! I'd no idea that you were there

# When I said help me, help me, help me, help me

# Oh, thank you for listening to my prayer

HE WHISTLES

# Workin' on my rewrite

THEY WHISTLE

# Rewrite, rewrite. #

THEY WHISTLE

MUSIC: "SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY"

# Slip slidin' away

# Slip slidin' away

# The nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin' away

# Well, I know a man

# He came from my home town

# Wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown

# He said, "Delores, I live in fear

# "My love for you's so overpowering

# I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'll disappear

# Slip slidin' away

# Slidin' away

# The nearer your destination, The more you're slip slidin' away

# And I know a woman

# Became a wife

# These are the very words she uses to describe her life

# She said, "A good day, Well, it ain't got no rain"

# She said, "A bad day's when I lie in bed

# "And think of things that might have been"

# Slip slidin' away

# Slidin' away

# Ooh, ooh, ooh

# Away, away, away

# Well, I know a father who had a son

# He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he'd done

# He came a long way just to explain

# He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping

# And then he turned around and he headed home again

# He's slip slidin'

# Ooh, ooh, ooh

# Away, away, away

# God only knows

# God makes His plan

# The information's unavailable to the mortal man

# We're working our jobs

# Collecting our pay

# Believe we're gliding down the highway

# In fact we're slip slidin' away

# Slip slidin' away

# Slidin' away

# Ooh, ooh, ooh

# Away, away, away

# Slip slidin' away

# The nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin'

# Mm-mm-mm

# Oh lo, lo-lo, lo-da-lo, ohhhh

# A whoa-da-lo, lo, la-lo, la-lo, ah-whoa-oh

# Oh, lo, lo, lo, lo

# Lo, lo, lo, lo

# Lo, lo-lo

# A whoa-de-lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo

# Whoa-ohhh. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "THE SOUND OF SILENCE"

# Hello, darkness, my old friend

# I've come to talk with you again

# Because a vision softly creeping

# Left its seeds while I was sleeping

# And the vision that was planted in my brain

# Still remains

# Within the sound of silence

# In restless dreams I walked alone

# Narrow streets of cobblestone

# 'Neath the halo of a streetlamp

# I turned my collar to the cold and damp

# When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

# That split the night

# And touched the sound of silence

# In the naked light I saw

# Ten thousand people, maybe more

# People talking without speaking

# People hearing without listening

# People writing songs that voices never share

# And no-one dare

# Disturb the sound of silence

# Fools, said I, you do not know

# Silence like a cancer grows

# Hear my words that I might teach you

# Take my arms that I might reach out to you

# But my words like silent raindrops fell

# And echoed

# In the wells of silence

# And the people bowed and prayed

# To the neon God they made

# And the sign flashed its warning

# And the words that it was forming

# Said, the words of the prophets are written on subway walls

# And tenement halls

# And whispered in the sound of silence. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT"

# I'm going to make a chicken gumbo

# Toss some sausage in the pot

# I'm going to flavour it with okra

# Cayenne pepper to make it hot

# I know life is what you make of it

# So beautiful or so what

# I'm going to tell my kids a bedtime story

# A play without a plot

# Will it have a happy ending?

# Maybe yeah, maybe not

# I tell them life is what you make of it

# So beautiful or so what

# So beautiful

# So beautiful

# So beautiful, so what

# I'm just a raindrop in a bucket

# A coin dropped in a slot

# I am an empty house on Weed Street

# Across the road from a vacant lot

# I know life is what you make of it

# So beautiful or so what

# And ain't it strange the way we're ignorant

# How we seek out bad advice

# How we jigger it and figure it

# Mistaking value for the price

# And play a game with time and love

# Oh, like a pair of rolling dice

# So beautiful

# So beautiful

# So beautiful, so what

# There were four men on the balcony, Overlooking the parking lot

# Pointing at a figure in the distance

# Dr King has just been shot

# And the sirens' long melody

# Singing, Saviour, pass me not

# And ain't it strange the way we're ignorant

# How we seek out bad advice

# How we jigger it and figure it

# Mistaking value for the price

# And play a game with time and love

# Oh, like a pair of rolling dice

# So beautiful

# So beautiful

# So beautiful

# So beautiful

# So beautiful. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "CRAZY LOVE, VOL.II"

# Fat Charlie the Archangel sloped 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, "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

# Don't want no part of your love

# Don't want no part of this crazy love

# 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's on me

# Yeah, well, I have no opinion about that

# Oh, and I have no opinion about me

# Somebody could walk into this room and say your life's on fire

# And 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

# Don't want no part of your love

# Don't want no part of this crazy love

# Don't want no part of your love

# Don't want no part of this crazy love

# Don't want no part of your love

# Oh, want no part of this crazy love

# Don't want no part of this crazy love

# Crazy love

# Crazy love

# Don't want no part of your love

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

# Don't want a part of your love

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

# Fat Charlie the Archangel, He files for divorce

# He said, "Well, this'll take up a year of my life

# "And then there's all that weight to be lost"

# She says the joke's on me I say the joke's on her

# Well, I have no opinion about that

# We'll just have to wait and confer

# Don't want no part of this crazy love

# Don't want no part of this crazy 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. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "KODACHROME"

# When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

# It's a wonder I can think at all

# And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none

# I can read the writing on the wall

# Kodachrome

# Give us those nice, bright colours

# Give us the greens of summers

# Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah

# I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph

# So, mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

# If you took all the girls I knew when I was single

# And brought 'em all together for one night

# I know they'd never match my sweet imagination

# Everything looks worse in black and white

# Kodachrome

# Give us those nice, bright colours

# Give us the greens of summers

# Makes you think all the world's a sunny day

# I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph

# So, mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome, Mama, don't take my Kodachrome

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome, Leave your boy so far from home

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome, oo-ooh

# Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away. #

MUSIC: "GONE AT LAST"

# The night was black The roads were icy

# Snow was fallin', drifts were high

# I was weary from my driving

# And I, I stopped to rest for a while

# I sat down at a truck stop

# I was thinking about my past

# I've had a long streak of that bad luck

# But I pray it's gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# I've had a long

-I have had a long

# Streak of that bad luck

# But I pray it's gone at last

# I ain't dumb, I've kicked around some

# And I don't fall too easily

# But that girl She looked so dejected

# She just grabbed my sympathy

# "Sweet little soul," says I "What's your problem?"

# "Tell me why you're so downcast"

# "I've had a long streak of that bad luck

# "But I pray it's gone at last"

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# I've had a long

-I've had a long

# Streak of that bad luck

# But I pray it's gone at last

# Well, once in a while From out of nowhere

# You don't expect it You're unprepared

# Somebody will come and lift you higher

# And your burdens will be shared

# And I do believe If I hadn't have met you

# I might still be sinking fast

-# I've had a long

-I've had a long

# Streak of that bad luck

# But I'm pray it's gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# Gone at last

-Gone at last

-# I've had a long

-Had a long

# Streak of that bad luck

# But I pray it's gone at last

-# Gone, gone

-Gone at last

-# Gone, gone, gone

-Gone at last

-# Gone, gone, gone

-Gone at last

-# Gone, gone, gone,

-Gone at last

-# I've had a long

-Had a long

# Streak of that bad luck

# But I pray it's gone at last. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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