Álbum So Beautiful Or So What de Paul Simon - Canciones

So Beautiful Or So What

2011 |

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Getting Ready For Christmas DayVer letra 4:06

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letra de Getting Ready For Christmas Day
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
The AfterlifeVer letra 3:40

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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
Dazzling BlueVer letra 4:32

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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
RewriteVer letra 3:49

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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
Love And Hard TimesVer letra 4:09

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letra de Love And Hard Times
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
Love Is Eternal Sacred LightVer letra 4:02

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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
Amulet 1:36
Questions For The AngelsVer letra 3:49

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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...
Love & Blessings 4:18
So Beautiful Or So WhatVer letra 4:07

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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...