Simon & Garfunkel - America download song

“I’m empty and aching, and I don’t know why.” I can relate

I cry every time I listen to this. I've been that person on the bus from Pittsburgh. 50 years ago.

A song that captures existential anxiety like no other.

Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping And I'm empty and aching and I don't know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike Brings me to abject tears every time

Turns out, the man in the gabardine suit actually WAS a spy.

so i looked at the scenery, she read her magazine, and the moon rose over an open field

This is absolutely one of the most beautifully written songs in creation. Equally ethereal is Simon and Garfunkel's performance.

"So I looked at the scenery. She read her magazine. And, The Moon rose over an open field" Exquisite.

who are the two misguided souls that disliked this masterpiece?

In the 1960s, i discovered Simon and Garfunkel, as a kid who wasn't supposed to be listening to such "hip" stuff. In 1983, i set off on cross-country a road trip to discover America's blue highways with Cathie, my friend and my obsession, only to discover that Simon and Garfunkel had already paved the way. And then, fast forward to January 2019, listening to the Bookends album for the first time in decades on tinny airline earphones, as i touched down in a strange land, only to find the music was as powerful there and then as it had been over half a century earlier. Some things never change, when everything around them does...

I can't get over how this was recorded 50 years ago, and yet somehow the audio fidelity, and production sounds far better than anything made today - with all of todays technology!

The America we fought so hard for in the 60's we must renew!!

"This song is the reason why I'm leaving home to become a stewardess"

One of the best songs I have ever heard. And I am not American. And I am no longer young. But the truth of this song has screamed at me from the first time I heard it.

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's pies And we walked off to look for America Cathy, 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 gone 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 Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping And 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

America, you're not perfect,you have made numerous mistakes but you certainly are the best thing that's happened to the modern world. Much love from India.

This is one of those songs you never want to end... A song that captures existential anxiety like no other.