So Beautiful Or So What de Paul Simon

Listado de Canciones

1. Getting Ready For Christmas Day4:06

   Letra

   From early in November to the last week of December I got money matters weighing me down Oh the music may be merry, but it's only temporary I know Santa Claus is coming to town In the days I work my day job, in the nights I work my night But it all comes down to working man's pay Getting ready, I'm getting ready, ready for Christmas Day [Reverend Gates:] Getting ready for Christmas Day And let me tell you, namely, the undertaker, he's getting ready for your body Not only that, the jailer he's getting ready for you Christmas day. Hmm? And not only the jailer, but the lawyer, the police force Now getting ready for Christmas day, and I want you to bear it in mind I got a nephew in Iraq it's his third time back But it's ending up the way it began With the luck of a beginner he'll be eating turkey dinner On some mountain top in Pakistan Getting ready, oh we're getting ready For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas day [Reverend Gates:] Getting ready, for Christmas day. Done made it up in your mind that I'm going, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago. I'm going, on a trip, getting ready, for Christmas day. But when Christmas come, nobody knows where you'll be. You might ask me. I may be layin' in some lonesome grave, getting ready, for Christmas day Getting ready oh we're getting ready For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas day Yes we're getting ready [Reverend Gates:] Getting ready, ready for your prayers, "I'm going and see my relatives in a distant land." Getting ready, getting ready for Christmas day If I could tell my Mom and Dad that the things we never had Never mattered we were always okay Getting ready, oh ready for Christmas day Getting ready oh we're getting ready For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas day
2. The Afterlife3:40

   Letra

   After I died, and the make up had dried, I went back to my place. No moon that night, but a heavenly light shone on my face. Still I thought it was odd, there was no sign of God just to usher me in. Then a voice from above, sugar coated with Love, said, "Let us begin". You got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line. You got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line. OK, a new kid in school, got to follow the rule, you got to learn the routine. Woah, there's a girl over there, with the sunshiny hair, like a homecomin' queen. I said, "Hey, what you say? It's a glorious day, by the way how long you been dead?" Maybe you, maybe me, maybe baby makes three, but she just shook her head... You got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line. You got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line. Buddah and Moses and all the noses from narrow to flat, Had to stand in the line, just to glimpse the divine, what you think about that? Well it seems like our fate to suffer and wait for the knowledge we seek. It's all his design, no one cuts in the line, no one here likes a sneak You got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line. You got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line. After you climb, up the ladder of time, the Lord God is here. Face to face, in the vastness of space, your words disappear. And you feel like swimming in an ocean of love, and the current is strong. But all that remains when you try to explain is a fragment of song... Lord is it, Be Bop A Lu La or Ooh Poppa Do Lord, Be Bop A Lu La or Ooh Poppa Do Be Bop A Lu La
3. Dazzling Blue4:32

   Letra

   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 Now-a-days, 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
4. Rewrite3:49

   Letra

   I'm workin' on my rewrite, that's right Gonna change the ending Throw away the title Toss it in the trash Every minute after midnight All the time I'm spending Is just for workin'on my rewrite Gonna turn it into cash I been workin' at the Car Wash I consider it my day job 'Cause it's really not a pay job But that's where I am Everybody says "The old guy Workin'at the Car Wash?" Hasn't got a brain cell left Since Vietnam [Chorus:] 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 Thank you For listening to my prayer I'll eliminate the pages Where the father has a breakdown And he has to leave the family But he really meant no harm Gonna substitute a car chase And a race across the rooftops Where the father saves the children And he holds them in his arms Yeah I'm workin'on my rewrite, all right Gonna change my ending Throw away the title Toss it in the trash Every minute after midnight All the Time I'm spending Is just for workin'on my rewrite. Gonna turn it into cash [Chorus:] I said Help me, help me Help me, help me Thank you! I'd no idea That you were there
5. Love And Hard Times4:09

   Letra

   God and his only son Paid a courtesy call on Earth one Sunday morning Orange blossoms opened their fragrant lips Songbirds sang from the tips of cotton roots Old folks wept For his love in these hard times 'Well, better be going,' Said the the restless lord to his son 'There are galaxies yet to be born Creation is never done Anyway these people are slobs here If we stay it's bound to be a mob scene' Disappeared And it's just like love in hard times I loved her the first time I saw her I know that's an old songwriting clich? I loved her the first time I saw her Can't describe it any other way Any other way The light of her beauty is warm as a summer day Clouds of antelopes roll by No hint of rain Pale blue sky Just love, love, love, love, love But the rains came The tears burned The windows rattled The locks turned It's easy to be generous when you're owed It's hard to be grateful When you're out of control And love is gone The light at the edge of the curtain was the quiet dove The bedroom weaves in clicks and clacks My heart and my mind will never last When your hand takes mine Thank god I found you tonight Thank god I found you tonight Thank god I found you
6. Love Is Eternal Sacred Light4:02

   Letra

   Love is eternal sacred light Free from the shackles of time Evil is darkness, sight without sight A demon that feeds on the mind How'd it all begin? Started with a bang Couple of light years later, stars and planets sang Fire warmed the cold, waves of colors flew Moonlight into gold, earth to green and blue Love is eternal sacred light Free from the shackles of time Evil is darkness, sight without sight A demon that feeds on the mind Earth becomes a farm Farmer takes a wife Wife becomes a river and the giver of life Man becomes machine Oil runs down his face Machine becomes a man with a bomb in the marketplace Bomb in the marketplace, bomb in the marketplace Love is eternal sacred light Free from the shackles of time Evil is darkness, sight without sight A demon that feeds on the mind Big Bang That's a joke that I made up Once when I had eons to kill You know, most folks They don't get when I'm joking Well, maybe someday they will Love me Love me That's the main request I receive Well you know I love all my children And it tears me up when I leave But sometimes you gotta fly down that highway Free as a bird, knock on wood, thank the Lord I am driving along in my automobile It's a brand new pre-owned '96 Ford Check out the radio, pop music station That don't sound like my music to me Talk show host, what's that boy's name? Politics is ugly At the end of the dial there's the gospel show Maybe now I can exit and rest There's a blizzard rolling down off the banks of Lake Michigan Gonna cover the roads of the icy Midwest Love is eternal sacred light Free from the shackles of time Evil is darkness, sight without sight A demon that feeds all the mind Love is eternal sacred light Love is eternal sacred light Love is eternal sacred light
7. Amulet1:36
8. Questions For The Angels3:49

   Letra

   A pilgrim on a pilgrimmage Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge His sneakers torn In the hour when the homeless move their cardboard blankets And the new day is born Folded in his backpack pocket The questions that he copied from his heart Who Am I in this lonely world? Where will I make my bed tonight? When twilight turns to dark Questions for the angels... Who believes in angels? Fools do... Fools and pilgrims all over the world If you shop for Love in a bargain store And you don't get what you are bargain for... Can you get your money back? If an empty train in a railway station Calls you to its destination Can you choose another track? Will I wake up from these violent dreams? With my hair as white as the morning moon? Questions for the angels... Who believes in angels? I do... Fools and pilgrims all over the world Downtown Brooklyn The pilgrim is passing a bill-board And catches his eyes It's Jay-Z He's got a kid on each knee He is wearing clothes that he wants us to try If every human on the planet And all the buildings in it Should disappear Would a zebra grazing in the african savana Care enough to share one zebra tear? Questions for the angels...
9. Love & Blessings4:18
10. So Beautiful Or So What4:07

    Letra

    I'm gonna make a chicken gumbo Toss some sausage in the pot I'm gonna flavor it with okra Cayenne pepper to make it hot You know life is what we make of it So beautiful or so what I'm gonna tell my kids a bedtime story A play without a plot Will it have a happy ending? Maybe yes, maybe not I tell them life is what you make of it So beautiful or so what 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 You know life is what you make of it So beautiful or so what 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 Like a pair of rolling dice So beautiful, so beautiful So what Four men on the balcony Overlooking the parking lot Pointing at a figure in the distance Dr. King has just been shot And the siren's long melody Singing savior pass me not 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 Like a pair of rolling dice So beautiful, so beautiful So beautiful...