50 Ways to Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon

The problem is all inside your head,” she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically”
I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover

She said, “It’s really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued”
But I’ll repeat myself at the risk of being crude
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover
50 ways to leave your lover

You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

Ooh, slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
You just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

She said, “It grieves me so to see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again”
I said I appreciate that, and would you please explain
About the fifty ways

She said, “Why don’t we both just sleep on it tonight?
And I believe in the morning you’ll begin to see the light”
And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover
50 ways to leave your lover

You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Oh, you hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

Slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
You just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

Slip Slidin’ Away – Paul Simon

Hoo-ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo, hoo-ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo

Slip slidin’ away, slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin’ away

I know a man, he came from my hometown
He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown
He said, “Delores I live in fear
My love for you so overpowering I’m afraid that I will disappear”

Slip slidin’ away, slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin’ away

“And I know a woman became a wife”
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
She said, “A good day ain’t got no rain”
She said, “A bad day’s when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been”

Slip slidin’ away, slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin’ away

And I know a father who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he’d done
He came a long way just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping then he turned around and headed home again

He’s slip slidin’, slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin’ away

And God only knows, God makes His plan
The information’s unavailable to the mortal man
We’re workin’ our jobs, collect our pay
Believe we’re gliding down the highway when in fact we’re slip slidin’ away

Slip slidin’ away, slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away, slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin’ away

A-mm-hm-mm-hm
I wanna love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-la-la-love
I wanna love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-la-la-love
I wanna love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-love, a-la-la-love
I wanna love and love and love and love and la-la-love
I wanna love, love, love, love, love, love, la-la-la-mm-hmm

Late In the Evening – Paul Simon

First thing I remember, I was lying in my bed
Couldn’t’ve been no more than one or two
And I remember there’s a radio comin’ from the room next door
And my mother laughed the way some ladies do
When it’s late in the evening
And the music’s seeping through

The next thing I remember, I am walking down the street
I’m feeling alright, I’m with my boys, I’m with my troops, yeah
And down along the avenue, some guys were shootin’ pool
And I heard the sound of a cappella groups, yeah
Singing late in the evening
And all the girls out on the stoops, yeah

Then I learned to play some lead guitar, I was underage in this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke myself a “J”
And when I came back to the room and everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and began to play
And it was late in the evening
And I blew that room away

First thing I remember when you came into my life
I said, “I’m gonna get that girl no matter what I do”
Well, I guess I’d been in love before and once or twice I’d been on the floor
But I never loved no one the way I loved you
And it was late in the evening
And all the music seeping through

Casta Diva – from Norma by Vincenzo Bellini

Casta Diva, che inargenti
queste sacre antiche piante,
a noi volgi il bel sembiante
senza nube e senza vel…
Tempra, o Diva,
tempra tu de’ cori ardenti
tempra ancora lo zelo audace,
spargi in terra quella pace
che regnar tu fai nel ciel…

Pure Goddess, whose silver covers
These sacred ancient plants,
we turn to your lovely face
unclouded and without veil…
Temper, oh Goddess,
the hardening of you ardent spirits
temper your bold zeal,
Scatter peace across the earth
Thou make reign in the sky…