roly-poly little bat-faced girl

or, songs to which i cannot stop listening - the paul simon edition

• "graceland" (she comes back to tell me she's gone. as if i didn't know that, as if i didn't know my own bed. as if i'd never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead.)
• "hearts and bones" (why won't you love me for who i am where i am? he said, 'cause that's not the way the world is baby. this is how i love you, baby. this is how i love you.')
• "homeless" (homeless, boom boom)
• "diamonds on the soles of her shoes" (i could say 'oooooooooooo' and everyone would know what i was talking about)
• "the coast" (summer skies, the stars are falling all along the injured coast)
  
• "the cool, cool river" (sometimes, even music cannot substitute for tears)
• "trailways bus" (yes, i am an alien from mars)
  
• "you can call me al" (he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity, he says 'amen, alleluia!') not to mention one of the best bass solos ever written, much less executed.