Simon & Garfunkel

"The problem is all inside your head", she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover She said it's really not my habit to intrude Furthermore, I hope my...

This is the early evening edition of the news. The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill. Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the measure without the votes...

A church is burning The flames rise higher Like hands that are praying They grow in the sky Like hands that are praying The fire ascends You can burn down my churches But I shall be free Three hooded men through the back roads did creep Torches in th...

Time, time, time See what's become of me While I looked around For my possibilities I was so hard to please But look around Leaves are brown And the sky is a hazy shade of winter Hear the Salvation Army band Down by the riverside It's bound to be a better rid...

New York, to that tall skyline I come Flying in from London to your door New York, looking down on Central Park Wher ethey say you should not wander after dark New York, like a scene from all those movies But you're real enough for me But there's a hear...

He was a most peculiar man That's what Mrs. Riordan said and she should know She lived upstairs from him She said he was a most peculiar man He was a most peculiar man He lived all alone within a house, Within a room, within himself, A most peculiar man...

The last train is nearly due, The underground is closing soon, And in the dark deserted station, Restless in anticipation, A man waits in the shadows His restless eyes leap and scratch, At all that they can touch or catch, And hidden deep within...

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 Spect...

"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together" "I've got some real estate here in my bag" So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies And we walked off to look for America "Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seem...

Many's the time I've been mistaken, and many times confused Yes and I've often felt forsaken, and certainly misused Ah but I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm just weary thru my bones Still you don't expect to be bright and bon-vivant So far away from home, so f...

April come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain; May, she will stay, Resting in my arms again June, she'll change her tune, In restless walks she'll prowl the night; July, she will fly And give no warning to her flight. August, die she must,...

Someone told me It's all happening at the zoo I do believe it, I do believe it's true It's a light and tumble journey From the East Side to the park; Just a fine and fancy ramble To the zoo But you can take the crosstown bus If it's raining or it's cold, And...

My daddy was the family bassman My mamma was an engineer And I was born one dark gray morn With music coming in my ears In my ears They call me Baby Driver And once upon a pair of wheels Hit the road and I'm gone What's my number I wonder how your engines fee...

It was in the merry month of May When green bugs were a-swelling Sweet William on his death bed lay For the love of Barbriallen He sent his servant to the town The place where she'd been dwelling Say master dear has sent me here If your name be Barbria...

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 English translation: Blessed are those who have come In the name of the Lord In the name In the name I...

Fog's rollin' in off the East River bank Like a shroud it covers Bleeker Street Fills the alleys where men sleep Hides the shepherd from the sheep Voices leaking from a sad cafe Smiling faces try to understand I saw a shadow touch a shadow's hand On Bl...

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit. Blessed is the lamb whose blood flows. Blessed are the sat upon, Spat upon, Ratted on, O Lord, Why have you forsaken me? I got no place to go, I've walked around Soho for the last night or so. Ah, but it...

Catch a boat to England, baby, Maybe to Spain Wherever I have gone, Wherever I've been and gone Wherever I have gone The blues run the game Send out for whiskey, baby, Send out for gin Me and room service, honey Me and room service, babe Me and room...

Time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence, a time of confidences Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you 

When you're weary, feelin' small When tears are in your eyes I will dry them all I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me do...

Bye bye love Bye bye happiness, hello loneliness I think I'm-a gonna cry-y Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress, hello emptiness I feel like I could di-ie Bye bye my love goodby-eye There goes my baby with-a someone new She sure looks happy, I sure am blue She...

Refrain:(2x) Celia, youre breaking my heart, You`re shaking my confidence daily. Oh Cecilia, I`m down on my knees, I`m begging you please to come home. Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom. I got up to wash my face, when I come back to b...

Cloudy The sky is gray and white and cloudy, Sometimes I think it's hanging down on me. And it's a hitchhike a hundred miles. I'm a rag-a-muffin child. Pointed finger-painted smile. I left my shadow waiting down the road for me a while. Cloudy My thoughts are...

God rest ye merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ our savior, Was born on Christmas Day. To save us all from Satan's power, When we we're gone astray. Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, Oh, tidings of comfort and joy. God r...

You know he's sittin' in a cockpit, feels like he's in a dream Because he's heading to Havana, he should be going to New Orleans Mister [something something] talking very slow and mean he's sitting in a cockpit, feels like he's gonna die He got a hundred t...

Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream alone Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream alone Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream alone Cry, oh Cry, cry alone Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream Alone Dream alone Dream Alone Dream Alone D...

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 an nail Yes I would If I only could I surely would Away, I'd rather sail away Like a swan that's here and gone A man gets tied up to the ground H...

When she goes, she's gone If she stays, she stays here The girl does what she wants to do She knows what she wants to do And I know I'm fakin' it I'm not really makin' it I'm such a dubious soul And a walk in the garden Wears me down Tangled in the fallen vin...

Through the corridors of sleep Past the shadows dark and deep My mind dances and leaps in confusion I don't know what is real, I can't touch what I feel And I hide behind the shield of my illusion So I'll continue to continue to pretend My life will neve...

What the dream I had: Pressed in organdy; Clothed in crinoline of smoky burgundy; Softer than the rain. I wandered empty streets Down past the shop displays. I heard cathedral bells Tripping down the alley ways, As I walked on. And when you ran to me Your ch...

There may come a time When you'll be tired As tired as a dream that wants to die And further to fly Further to fly Further to fly Further to fly Maybe you will find a love That you discover accidentally Who falls against you gently As a pickpocket B...

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

Time, time, time, see what's become of me While I looked around For my possibilities I was so hard to please But look around, leaves are brown And the sky is a hazy shade of winter Hear the salvation army band Down by the riverside, it's bound to be a better...

He was my brother Five years older than I He Was my brother Twenty-three years old the day he died Freedom rider They cursed my brother to his face Go home outsider This town's gonna be your buryin' place He was singing on his knees An angry...

Hey, schoolgirl in the second row The teacher's lookin' over So I got to whisper way down low To say, "Who bop a loo chi bop, let's meet after school at three" She said, "Hey, babe, but there is one thing more My school is over at half past four Maybe w...

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I’m sitting In the railway station Got a ticket for my destination. On a tour of on-night stands My suitcase and gitar in hand And ev’ry stop In neatly planned For a poet and a one-man band. Homeward Bound I wish I was. Homeward Bound. Home, where my thought’...

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...

It's so lonely sitting all alone Weekends weren't made to stay at home Wish I had a girl to call my own I am lonely Getting tired of the radio I can't watch another TV show How I wish I had a place to go I am lonely Everywhere I look Kids are having...

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 My mind's distrac...

Gee but it`s great to be back home, Home is where I want to be. I`ve been on the road so long my friend, and if you came along I know you couldn`t disagree. It`s the same old story Everywhere I go, I get slandered, Libeled, I hear words I never heard In the B...

Last night I had the strangest dream I ever dreamed before I dreamed the world had all agreed To put an end to war I dreamed I saw a mighty room The room was filled with men And the paper they were signing said They'd never fight again And when the pa...

I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song. I'm twenty-two now but I won't be for long Time hurries on. And the leaves that are green turn to brown, And they wither with the wind, And they crumble in your hand. Once my heart was filled with the love...

The mama pajama rolled out of bed And she ran to the police station When the papa found out he began to shout And he started the investigation It’s against the law It was against the law What the mama saw It was against the law The mama looked down a...

And here's to you, Mrs Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo, wo, wo, God bless you please, Mrs Robinson Heaven holds a place for those who pray, Hey, hey, hey... hey, hey, hey We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files We'd like to...

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, in my little town, Coming home after school, flying my bike past the gates of the factories, My mom doing th...

Old friends Old friends Sat on their parkbench like bookends A newspaper blowin' through the grass Falls on the round toes of the high shoes, of the old friends Old friends Winter companions, the old men Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun The s...

She's gone Gone The memory lives on Our song I keep hearing our song Even though I know you are gone The memory lives on My favorite deejay on the radio Plays dedications but he doesn't know That once upon a time our song made two hearts chime When...

Why don't we stop fooling ourselves? The game is over, over, over No good times, no bad times There's no times at all Just The New York Times Sitting on the windowsill Near the flowers We might as well be apart It hardly matters We sleep separately And drop...

The night sets softly With the hush of falling leaves, Casting shivering shadows On the houses through the trees, And the light from a street lamp Paints a pattern on my wall, Like the pieces of a puzzle Or a child's uneven scrawl. Up a narrow flight...

As we marched down to Faneri-o As we marched down to Faneri-o Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove And they called her name pretty Peggy-o Come a-runnin' down the stairs, pretty Peggy-o Come a-runnin' down the stairs, pretty Peggy-o Come a-r...

Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake Floatin' in my bowl takin' movies Relaxin' a while, livin' in style Talkin' to a raisin who 'casionally plays L.A. Casually glancing at his toupee Wish I was an English muffin 'Bout to make the most out of a toaster I'd ease m...

I should have known you'd bid me farewell There's a lesson to be learned from this And I learned it very well 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 And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah,...

They say that Richard Cory owns one half of this whole town, With political connections to spread his wealth around. Born into society, a banker's only child, He had everything a man could want: power, grace, and style. But I work in his factory And I curse t...

I'm a rambler I'm a gambler I'm a long way from my home If you people don't like me I can make out on my own 'Casue it's dark And it's rainin' And the Moon gives no light And my pony can hardly travel On this darkened road at night You know once I h...

I am a roving gambler I gamble down in town Wherever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down I lay my money down I lay my money down I had not been in Washington Many more weeks than three When I fell in love with a pretty little girl She fel...

"Good God! Don't jump!" A boy sat on the ledge An old man who had fainted was revived And everyone agreed 'twould be a miracle indeed If the boy survived "Save the life of my child!" Cried the desperate mother The woman from the supermarket Ran to call the c...

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green) Parsely, sage, rosemary and thy...

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away You know the nearer your destination The more you're slip sliding away I know a man, he came from my hometown He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown He said Delores, I live in fear My love for you's so...

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 Architects may come and A...

I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love, As she lies here beside me asleep with the night. Her hair in a fine mist floats on my pillow, Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight. But I've got to creep down the alley way, Fly down the highway,...

If you want to write a song about the moon Walk along the craters of the afternoon When the shadows are deep And the light is alien And gravity leaps like a knife off the pavement And you want to write a song about the moon You want to write a spiritual...

Here is my song for the asking Ask me and I will play So sweetly, I’ll make you smile This is my tune for the taking Take it, don’t turn away I’ve been waiting all my life Thinking it over, I’ve been sad Thinking it over, I’d be more than glad To cha...

Who will love a little sparrow Who's traveled far and cries for rest? Not I, said the Oak Tree I won't share my branches with no sparrow's nest And my blanket of leaves won't warm her cold breast Who will love a little sparrow And who will speak a...

Long years ago, on a deep winter night. High in the heavens, a star shone bright. While in the manger, a wee baby lay. Sweetly asleep, on a bed of hay. Jesus our lord, was that baby so small. Lay down to sleep, in a humble stall. Then came the star, and...

In a vine covered shack in the mountains Bravely fighting the battle of time Is a dear one who's weathered my sorrows 'Tis that silver haired daddy of mine If I could recall all the heartaches Dear old daddy, I've caused you to bear If I could erase tho...

My story really begins a month ago That's when I first saw you You're eyes were aglow And then I could see (and then I could see) That you were for me I go to sleep at night and dream of you I wish I could hold you tight the whole night through But when...

I am just a poor boy Though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises All lies and jests Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest When I left my home and my family I was no mor...

Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobble stones. Looking for fun and feelin' groovy. Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da...Feelin' Groovy. Hello lamp-post, What cha knowin'? I've come to watch your flowers growin'....

Do people have a tendency to dump on you? Does your group have more cavities than theirs? Do all the hippies seem to get the jump on you? Do you sleep alone when other sleep in pairs? Well there's no need to complain, We'll eliminate your pain. We can neutrali...

It's a still life water color, Of a now late afternoon, As the sun shines through the curtained lace 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 c...

When the last eagle flies Over the last crumbling mountain And the last lion roars At the last dusty fountain In the shadow of the forest Though she may be old and worn They will stare unbelieving At the Last Unicorn When the first breath of winter Th...

Tom, get your plane right on time. I know your part'll go fine. Fly down to Mexico. Da-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da and here I am, The only living boy in New York. I get the news I need on the weather report. I can gather all the news I need on the weather report. Hey...

If I have weaknesses Don't let them blind me Or camouflage all I am wary of I could be sailing in seizures of laughter Or crawling out from under the heel of love Do my prayers remain unanswered Like a beggar at your sleeve Olodumare is smiling in heaven Smili...

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 a...

The sun is burning in the sky Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by In the park the lazy bees Are joining in the flowers, among the trees And the sun burns in the sky Now the sun is in the West Little kids go home to take their rest And the couples in the p...

Come gather 'round people where ever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone for the times th...

Man 1: I got little in this world. I give honesty without regret. One hundred dollars for that picture. I remember taking a picture with... Woman 1: Ooh! Let me show you. Let me show you our picture. This was me and my husband when we were first married. Wom...

Bad news, bad news! I heard you're packing to leave I come a-running right over I just couldn't believe it I just couldn't believe it Oh, baby, baby You must be out of your mind Do you know what you're kicking away? We've got a groovy thing goin', ba...

I can hear the soft breathing Of the girl that I love, As she lies here beside me Asleep with the night, And her hair, in a fine mist Floats on my pillow, Reflecting the glow Of the winter moonlight. She is soft, she is warm, But my heart remains heavy, And I...

Why don't you write me I'm out in the jungle I'm hungry to hear you. Send me a card, I am waiting so hard To be near you. (La, la, la) Why don't you write? Something is wrong And I know I got to be there. Maybe I'm lost, But I can't make the cost Of the airfa...

Well you can tell the world about this You can tell the nation about that Tell'em what the master has done Tell'em that the gospel has come Tell'em that the victory's been won He brought joy,joy,joy,joy,joy,joy, Into my heart Well my Lord spoke, he spo...

You don't know that you love me You don't know but I know that you do You may think you're above me, yeah What you think isn't always true Don't try to debate me, You should know that I'm womanly wise Still you try to manipulate me You don't know where your i...