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Artie
Feb-20-2006, 16:17 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
 | Wondered if you could clear something up for me? I have always thought that the repetition bit at the end of My Little Town was singing ´Nothing but the dead of night is black in my little town´. But on the chords section of this site it says ´nothing but the dead and dying, back in my little town´.
I think mine make more sense, but I´m figuring that somewhere they´ve been included in a sleeve so I´m not sure. Was hoping someone could confirm either way for me? |
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Hurricane
Feb-20-2006, 16:24 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| The line is, "Nothing but the dead and dying back in My Little Town..." A statement referring to the then possibility that PS could once again work effectively with AG? He obviously decided NOT at that particular time... |
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pet
Feb-20-2006, 16:31 GMT
IP:
Hungary
 | I always thought that line referred to Old people inhabiting the little town the singer left behind him. It´s a sentiment that many young people feel when they leave their hometown for a bigger city. They don´t like to go back because there are no opportunities for growing and evolving. |
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tnthub
Feb-21-2006, 22:49 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
 | Maybe I´m an idiot but I assumed the lyric was about small town America and how the American dream became polluted by assembly lines and dead end jobs. At one time the perception was that anyone (think Abe Lincoln) could rise from small town America and make a name for themselves but as big business moved in and people had to work a large company they came up against an economic "wall" and ultimated became bitter and their aspirations self destructed with age. At the end, despite the general feel of despair, I sense that age and success are looking back at the town, or city block, or state (whatever your experience is), and despite the general sorrow for those who did not get out of their situation, there is some sense of serenity as the author has succeeded in overcoming the "wall".
I also heard somewhere that paul wrote the song for Art because he thought the Watermark album needed some grit (he thought it was too "sweet"). |
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jeroen
Feb-21-2006, 23:39 GMT
IP:
Netherlands
 | Since Simon did not grow up in a "little town," he used second-hand experience. I think it is about a maturing mind who could cut the ties with his rural past. Some critics claim, Simon was addressing garfunkel for being muiscally less ambitious than he and wishing to reunite as a duo. makes sense, though. he wrote "So long, Frank Lloyd Wright" as a swan song for the duo (so along already artie! is heard at the end of the song). |
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Klausi
Feb-22-2006, 06:27 GMT
IP:
Germany
 | Simon wrote this song for Garfunkel`s album "Breakaway", which was released on the same date as "Still Crazy After All These Years".
At one point he even considered it not to be on his own album, which would have been another big mistake. It was Simon and Grafunkel`s last Top-ten-Hit forever.
Simon thought Grafunkel`s music is too sweet, and wanted to write a very nasty song, and this is what this song is about:
"Hanging our shirts in the dirty breeze", "All of the colors are black" "Everything`s the same...", "I was just my fathers son" and "Nothing but the dead and dying back in My Little Town".
In the TV-show "Simply Simon", taped in England in December 1975, he sang it solo, and the pictures of this city really were not very attractive.
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