Comments on: Much anticipated lines in Simon & Garfunkel’s Mrs. Robinson http://blog.osirra.com/2007/08/29/much-anticipated-lines-in-simon-garfunkels-mrs-robinson/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dan http://blog.osirra.com/2007/08/29/much-anticipated-lines-in-simon-garfunkels-mrs-robinson/comment-page-1/#comment-2270 Dan Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:40:03 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=1027#comment-2270 <p>Oh god, no. If you had your favourite meal every night, it would no longer be your favourite meal. And besides, the eager anticipation is part of the fun!</p> <p>How are you, Andy?</p> Oh god, no. If you had your favourite meal every night, it would no longer be your favourite meal. And besides, the eager anticipation is part of the fun!

How are you, Andy?

]]> By: Andy http://blog.osirra.com/2007/08/29/much-anticipated-lines-in-simon-garfunkels-mrs-robinson/comment-page-1/#comment-2271 Andy Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:42:13 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=1027#comment-2271 <p>Why not just edit down the song to those three lines and then loop them to your heart's content? All of the pleasure with none of that oh-so-interminable 'waiting'</p> <p>Andy</p> <p>ps You tit.</p> Why not just edit down the song to those three lines and then loop them to your heart’s content? All of the pleasure with none of that oh-so-interminable ‘waiting’

Andy

ps You tit.

]]> By: Shanahan http://blog.osirra.com/2007/08/29/much-anticipated-lines-in-simon-garfunkels-mrs-robinson/comment-page-1/#comment-2273 Shanahan Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:41:08 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=1027#comment-2273 <p>What did I just read? You are a strange fellow. But better to be strange than boring. </p> <p>I actually think my ears are waiting more for the music BETWEEN the lyrics than the lyrics themselves. Example is Kodachrome. I wait for the dum-dum-dumma dum-dum dum-dum bit and the words are just gravy.</p> What did I just read? You are a strange fellow. But better to be strange than boring.

I actually think my ears are waiting more for the music BETWEEN the lyrics than the lyrics themselves. Example is Kodachrome. I wait for the dum-dum-dumma dum-dum dum-dum bit and the words are just gravy.

]]> By: Nick Robinson http://blog.osirra.com/2007/08/29/much-anticipated-lines-in-simon-garfunkels-mrs-robinson/comment-page-1/#comment-2277 Nick Robinson Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:56:16 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=1027#comment-2277 <p>My first guitar songbook (bought a long time ago at age 15) was Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. Like most guitar songbooks it had chord charts with lyrics underneath but I especially liked how they'd written out ALL the Hmm, Hmmm, Hmmm, lie-la-lie, hey hey hey bits - that's poetry.</p> My first guitar songbook (bought a long time ago at age 15) was Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. Like most guitar songbooks it had chord charts with lyrics underneath but I especially liked how they’d written out ALL the Hmm, Hmmm, Hmmm, lie-la-lie, hey hey hey bits – that’s poetry.

]]> By: Steve http://blog.osirra.com/2007/08/29/much-anticipated-lines-in-simon-garfunkels-mrs-robinson/comment-page-1/#comment-2279 Steve Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:22:55 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=1027#comment-2279 <p>I'm particularly fond of the following exceedingly lengthy line in The Boxer, which Paul manages to somehow slip effortlessly into the metre of the song without it ever sounding clunky:</p> <p>"In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him til he cried out in his anger and his shame."</p> <p>I also like the cup-cake line though.</p> I’m particularly fond of the following exceedingly lengthy line in The Boxer, which Paul manages to somehow slip effortlessly into the metre of the song without it ever sounding clunky:

“In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him til he cried out in his anger and his shame.”

I also like the cup-cake line though.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.osirra.com/2007/08/29/much-anticipated-lines-in-simon-garfunkels-mrs-robinson/comment-page-1/#comment-2280 Jon Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:23:00 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=1027#comment-2280 <p>Dan,</p> <p>You are one of the weirdest people I know - and I mean that as a compliment.</p> <p>Jon</p> Dan,

You are one of the weirdest people I know – and I mean that as a compliment.

Jon

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