How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns Lyrics

Words & music by paul simon Tell us all a story About how it used to be Make it up and write it down Just like history About goldilocks and the three bears Nature in the cross hai...Read Full Lyrics

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 bui...Read Full Lyrics

Acts of kindness, like breadcrumbs in a fairytale forest, lead us past dangers as light melts the darkness. But I don't believe, and I'm not consoled. I lean closer to the fire, bu...Read Full Lyrics

Words & music by paul simon We were married on a rainy day The sky was yellow And the grass was gray We signed the papers And we drove away I do it for your love The rooms were m...Read Full Lyrics

She looked me over And I guess she thought I was all right All right in a sort of a limited way For an off-night She said don't I know you From the cinematographer's party I said w...Read Full Lyrics

Some nights the er is quiet as an ekg But tonight it feels like every broken bone Tonight it feels like every wounded soul Is filling out a form or on the phone I can’t tal...Read Full Lyrics

Oh Lord, don’t keep me up all night Side by side with the moon With its desolate eyes Miles from the sunrise The darkness inviting a tune The insomniac’s lullaby A sire...Read Full Lyrics

Half and hour you change your strings and tune up Sizing the room up Checking the bar Local girls unspoken conversations Misinformation Plays the guitar They say jonah was swallow...Read Full Lyrics

Sal I know you're trying to protect me Searching for another truth With your language and your poetry From my ignorance and youth Hey I did not come to argue My life never made mu...Read Full Lyrics

Inmate Killer wants to go to college He wants to get his parole So the department of corrections Will release him in the fall Killer wants to go on T. V. Wants to talk about his bo...Read Full Lyrics