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Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel (Original Post)
Swede
Apr 2022
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whathehell
(29,067 posts)1. I was just thinking about this song the other day...
The line "How terribly strange to be 70" came to mind.
Seventy seemed strange to me too when I first heard this song at age 18...Now, I'm 72, and those two guys are pushing 80. .C'est la vie.
Swede
(33,255 posts)2. As the song goes...
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
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whathehell
(29,067 posts)4. I don't know how old you are, Swede
but I'm guessing it easier to ponder that thought when you're as young as S&G and I once were.
I ain't no spring chicken.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)6. Their voices blend so perfectly...
that it is hard to tell, in some songs, which voice belongs to which artist. This is one of those.
Such a gentle melody.