| All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
The Boxer |
| I'd rather be a hammer than a nail. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
El Condor Pasa |
| The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
The Sound Of Silence |
| Fools, said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
The Sound Of Silence |
| Preserve your memories, they're all that's left of you. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Bookends |
| I'm on your side, when times get rough, and friends just can't be found, like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| The only truth I know is you. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Kathy's Song |
| When you're weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| As I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die. I know that I am like the rain there, but for the grace of you go I. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Kathy's Song |
| I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
I Am A Rock |
| If I never loved, I never would have cried. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
I Am A Rock |
| All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Homeward Bound |
| I'm empty and aching, and I don't know why. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
America |
| Time of innocence, a time of confidences, long ago it must be. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Bookends |
| When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he was. |
Simon And Garfunkel, |
A Simple Desultory Philippic |
| You read your Emily Dickinson and I my Robert Frost, and we note our place with bookmarkers that measure what we've lost. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
The Dangling Conversation |
| Like a poem poorly written we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
The Dangling Conversation |
| My words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the well of silence. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
The Sound Of Silence |
| Bartender, please fill my glass for me with the wine you gave Jesus that set him free after three days in the ground. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Bartender |
| Blessed are the meth drinkers, pot sellers, illusion dwellers. Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me? |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Blessed |
| I've been Rolling Stoned and Beatled 'til I'm blind. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
A Simple Desultory Philippic |
| I got nothing to do today but smile. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
The Only Living Boy In New York |
| Your time has come to shine, all your dreams are on their way. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| I held her close, but she faded in the night like a poem I meant to write. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Leaves That Are Green |
| Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom. I got up to wash my face, when I came back to bed, someone has taken my place. |
Simon and Garfunkel, |
Cecilia |