![]() Shake out the constant stimuli that come at us in the modern world, turn off everything and just hear myself, straighten up the spine - you know, less is more. I do it to get out of New York for perspective, some sky and to sing as loud as I want. I got from Ireland to Istanbul - I’m a nut. In August I finished walking Europe, in 30 installments starting in the late '90s. America is a song that creates a cinematic vista that tells of the singers search for a literal and physical America that seems to have disappeared, along. Are you to giving up that physical aspect of your life?ĪG: Yeah, I think so. Plot The song tells the tale of Richard Cory from the perspective of a man who works in his factory. The song was based on Edwin Arlington Robinson s 1897 poem of the same title. JC: How about your penchant for taking those big, long walks. Richard Cory (song) ' Richard Cory ' is a song written by Paul Simon in early 1965, and recorded by Simon and Garfunkel for their second studio album, Sounds of Silence. If anything, I burn stronger at this age. Artists bounce from project to project, and I live with the fun of what’s next. But in terms of mental attitude, the passion you have for your next project, 70 is effortless. America Lyrics by Simon & Garfunkel from the The Bridge School Concerts, Vol. ![]() You handle a long flight to Japan much worse than you used to. It slips in on your lower back, your frame. Drive right through, man.’ If you want to know the truth, then came 71 and it wasn’t such a piece of cake. But as I turned 70, I remember thinking ‘piece of cake. Verse 1 'Let us be lovers, well marry our fortunes together' 'Ive got some real estate here in my bag' So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. was intended to be how terribly strange to be 70 when you’re an old man sitting on a park bench with your buddy, and you make bookends with him. Now my generation has put a whole new spin on those numbers.ĪG: I’m 73 and feel pretty vital. Back then, the number 70 seemed a little ancient. He was probably less than 60, but it seemed like you didn’t have so many more years when you attained that adulthood. Did you ever think you’d be singing that line when you were 70?ĪG: When we were kids, didn’t we say adults in their 40s and 50s were way up there? When I think of Humphrey Bogart wearing that Fedora hat in the movies, there was the grown-up. America is a song partially inspired by Paul Simon’s relationship with a lady named Kathy Chitty, a union we will get a bit more into later. JC: On Bookends, when you sang about being 70, you were in your 20s. It could have been Jackie Robinson, but it was just 'where are these heroes from when America had been such a smooth field of clover, as in our childhood?' We developed the Marshall Plan to shape the world on our terms. We had just won WWII and were full of charity. The 40s was America's decade and we were sitting pretty. Joe DiMaggio represents the sweet America of the 1940s. JC: “Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?” ĪG: I think immediately of nostalgia.
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