One-Trick Pony de Paul Simon

Listado de Canciones

1. Late In The Evening4:02

   Letra

   The first thing I remember I was lying in my bed Couldn't have been no more than one or two And I remember there's a radio Comin' from the room next door And my mother laughed the way some ladies do When it's late in the evening All the music seeping through The next thing I remember I am walking down the street I'm feeling all right I'm with my boys, I'm with my troops, yeah And down along the avenue Some guys were shootin' pool And I heard the sound of a cappella groups, yeah Singing late in the evening And all the girls out on the stoops, yeah Then I learned to play some lead guitar I was underage in this funky bar And I stepped outside to smoke myself a "J" And when I came back to the room Everybody just seemed to move And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play And it was late in the evening And I blew that room away The first thing I remember When you came into my life I said I'm gonna get that girl no matter what I do Well I guess I'd been in love before And once or twice I been on the floor But I never loved no one the way that I loved you And it was late in the evening And all the music seeping through
2. That's Why God Made The Movies3:38
3. One-Trick Pony3:54
4. How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns2:49

   Letra

   In the blue light Of the belvedere Motel Wondering as the television burns How the heart approaches what it yearns In a fever I distinctly hear your voice Emerging from a dream, the dream returns How the heart approaches what it yearns After the rain on the Interstate The headlights slide past the moon A bone-weary traveler Waits by the side of the road Where's he goin? I dream we are lying on the top of a hill And headlights slide past the moon I fold in your arms And your voice is the heat of the night I'm on fire In a phone booth In some local bar and grill Rehearsing waht I'll say, my coin returns How the heart approaches what it yearns How the heart approaches what it yearns
5. Oh, Marion4:00

   Letra

   The boy's got brains He just don't use 'em that's all The boy's got brains He just refuse to use 'em and that's all He said "The more I got to thinkin The less I tend to laugh" The boy's got brains He just abstains The boy's got a heart But it beats on the opposite side It's a strange phenomenon The laws of nature defied He said "Its a chance I had to take So I shifted my heart for its safety sake" The boy's got a heart but it beats on His opposite side Oh, Marion, I think I'm in trouble here I should have believed you When I heard you saying it The only time That love is an easy game Is when two other people Are playing it The boy's got a voice But the voice is his natural disguise Yes the boy's got a voice But his words don't connect to his eyes He says "Oh, but when I sing I can hear the truth auditioning". The boy's got a voice But the voice is natural
6. Ace In The Hole5:43

   Letra

   Some people say Jesus that's the ace in the hole But I never met the man so I don't really know Maybe some Christmas If I'm sick and alone He will look up my number Call me on the phone and say Hey, boy, where you been so long Don't you know me I'm your ace in the hole Two hundred dollars, that's my ace in the hole When I'm down. dirty and desperate That's my emergency bank roll (I got...) Two hundred dollars, that's the price on the street If you wanna get some quality That's the price you got to meet (and the man says,,,) Hey, Junior, where you been so long Don't you know me I'm your ace in the hole (talk about ace In the hole) Once I was crazy and my ace in the hole Was that I knew that I was crazy So I never lost my setf-control I just walk in the middle of the road I sleep In the middle of the bed I stop In the middle of a sentence And the voice in the middle of my head said Hey, Junior, where you been so long Don't you know me I'm your ace in the hole (oh yeah) Ace In the hole Lean on me Don't you know me I'm your guarantee Riding on this rolling bus Beneath a stormy sky With a slow moon rising And the smokestacks drifting by In the hour when the heart is weakest And the memory Is strong When time has stopped But the bus Just rolls along Roll on, roll on Roll on. roll on Roll on, roll on Some people say music that's their ace in the hole Just your ordinary rhythm and blues Your basic rock and roll You can sit on the top of the beat You can lean on the side of the beat You can hang from the bottom of the beat But you got to admit that the music øs sweet Where you been so long Don't you know me I'm your ace in the hole (oh yeah) Ace in the hole Lean on me Don t you know me I'm your guarantee Some people say music that's their ace in the hole Just your ordinary rhythm and blues Your basic rock and roll You can sit on the top of the beat You can lean on the side of the beat You can hang from the bottom of the beat But you gotta admit that the music is sweet Hey, Junior. I'm your ace In the hole Hey. Junior, I'm your ace in the hole Hey, Junior, I'm your ace in the hole Hey, Junior, I'm your ace In the hole
7. Nobody3:33

   Letra

   Who knows my secret broken bone? Who feels my flesh when I am gone? Who was a witness to the dream? Who kissed my eyes and saw the scream Lying there? Nobody Who is my reason to begin? Who plows the earth, who breaks the skin? Who took my two hands and made them four? Who is my heart, who is my door? Nobody Nobody but you, girl Nobody but you Nobody in this whole wide world Nobody Who makes the bed that can't be made? Who is my mirror, who is my blade? When I am rising like a flood Who feels the pounding in my blood? Nobody Nobody but you Nobody but you, girl Nobody in this whole wide world Nobody, girl Nobody Nobody but you Nobody but you Nobody in this whole wide world Nobody, nobody Nobody
8. Jonah3:30

   Letra

   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 swallowed by a whale But I say there's no truth to that tale I know Jonah Was swallowed by a song No one lets their dreams be taken lightly They hold them tightly Warm against cold One more year of traveling 'round this ciruit Then you can work it into gold Here's to all the boys who came along Carrying soft guitars in cardboard cases All night long Do you wonder where those boys have gone? Do you wonder where those boys have gone?
9. God Bless The Absentee3:15

   Letra

   Lord, I'm a working man And music is my trade I'm travelin' with this five-piece band And I play the ace of spades I have a wife and family Who don't see much of me God bless the absentee Lord, I am a sugeon And music is my knife It cuts away my sorrow And purifies my life But if I could release my heart And veins and arteries I'd say God bless the absentee I miss my woman so I miss my bed I miss those soft places I used to lay my head My son don't need me yet His bones are soft He flies a silver airplane He wears a golden cross God bless the absentee Lord, this country's changed so fast The future is the present The present's in the past Highways are in litigation The airports disagree God bless the absentee God bless the absentee
10. Long, Long Day3:48

    Letra

    It's been a long, long day I got some run-down shoes Ain't got no place to stay But any old place will be okay It's been a long, long day I sure been on this road Done nearly fourteen years Can't say my name's well known You don't see my face in Rolling Stone But I sure been on this road Slow motion Half a dollar bill Jukebox in the corner Shooting to kill And it's been a... It's been a long, long day I sure could use a friend Don't know what else to say I hate to abuse an old cliche But it's been a long, long day Its been a long, long day