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america.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 @ 11:24 am |
comment (0) A close friend of mine once said that he could tell whenever I was in a contemplative mood because I would always be listening to Simon and Garfunkel's America. It's a beautiful song, about searching for something that you might be already in and can't see - and thus can't find... it's like the context it's found in Almost Famous. It's just beautiful. And if you haven't watched Almost Famous you'd better. "Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together I've got some real estate here in my bag" So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies And walked off to look for America "Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seems like a dream to me now" It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw I've come to look for America Laughing on the bus Playing games with the faces She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said "Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera" "Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat" "We smoked the last one an hour ago" So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine And the moon rose over an open field "Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why" Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America All come to look for America All come to look for America |