My Little Town - Simon & Garfunkel

We lock the doors at night All the sirens scream I don't drive my car Insurance is too high I live here in the city My hometown's far away I workout with concrete I don't drive my car The stars come out at night You see them on the strip Everybody arms themselves There's no other place like this I'll never leave this Small town girl behind The place where I come from Is with me all the time Oh, you could walk the streets When the sun goes down In my little town You don't need defenses When the sun goes down In my little town Back home on the street After 10 at night Mrs. Avery walks her dog Checks to see what's going on She doesn't lock the door She lives here in good health You don't hear the horn When Mrs. Avery walks her dog All I ever wanted Was a view of city lights Break away from here Leave behind the quiet nights Spend half your life Trying to make a change Then the other half Trying to get back again Oh, you could walk the streets When the sun goes down In my little town You don't need defenses When the sun goes down In my little town Look down the road Look at the highway Look past the fences Look at the faces What do you have on the other side? Oh, you could walk the streets When the sun goes down In my little town You don't need defenses When the sun goes down In my my town You could walk the streets When the sun goes down In my little town You don't need defenses In my little town where I come from In my little town you don't need a gun In my little town where I come from In my little town

O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting light The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is given So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of His heaven We hear the Christmas angels The great glad tidings tell O come to us, abide with us Our Lord Emmanuel No ear may hear his coming But in this world of sin Where meek souls will receive him still The dear Christ enters in.

A Salvation Army band played And the children drank lemonade And the morning lasted all day, all day And through an open window came Like Sinatra in a younger day Pushing the town away, away Heyya ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-naya Heyya ma ma ma, heyya Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma He sat on the stony ground And he took a cigarette out And everyone else came down to listen It was the winter 1963 I thought that the world would freeze With John F. Kennedy and The Beatles" Yeah yeah yeah Heyya ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-naya Heyya ma ma ma, heyya Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma Heyya ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-naya Heyya ma ma ma, heyya They shut the factory down Hey ma ma ma ma The evening had turned to rain Watched the water roll down the drain As they followed him down to the station He never would wave goodbye You could see it written in his eyes As the train pulled out of sight, bye bye Heyya ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-naya Heyya ma ma ma, heyya Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma, take it easy on yourself Heyya ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-naya Heyya ma ma ma, heyya Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma Heyya ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-naya Heyya ma ma ma, heyya Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma Heyya ma ma ma, hey-dee-da-naya Heyya ma ma ma, heyya Life in a northern town Hey ma ma ma ma

Don't you wanna dive on in? Yeah the water feels right Dancin' on the edge of the love you're a beautiful sight So why're you still standin' there in the half moonlight Come on, baby, give me a little more you Come on, baby, give me a little more you You're battin' those baby blues and honey I swear The way you got me needing you, girl it just ain't fair You've given me a little bit yeah, but don't stop there Come on, baby, give me a little more you Come on, baby, give me a little more you I'm here fallin' for you, my heart's callin' for you I know I never can get enough Don't hold back one bit of your love Strong and steady for you, I'm all ready Come on, baby, give me a little more you Come on, baby, give me a little more You're teasin' me with a touch and the whole world shakes Keep holdin' that river back and the levee may break There's only so much that this ol' boy can take Come on, baby, give me a little more you Yeah, come on, baby, give me a little more you I'm here fallin' for you, my heart's callin' for you I know I never can get enough Don't hold back one bit of your love Strong and steady for you, I'm all ready Come on, baby, give me a little more you Come on, baby, give me a little more you Come on, baby, give me a little more Oooooh, give me a little more You give me a little more, come on baby You give me a little more You give me a little more You give me a little more, come on baby You give me a little more You give me a little more You give me a little more, come on baby You give me a little more You give me a little more Little more little more Little more little more You

You've been singing that same old song Far too long, far too long Say you'll buy me a shiny ring But your words don't mean a thing No more calling me baby No more loving like crazy 'Til you take me down (Take me down) You better take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down (Take me down) Take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down You can't ride this gravy train Anymore, anyway There's a price for keeping me I might be cheap, but I ain't free No more calling me baby No more loving like crazy 'Til you take me down (Take me down) You better take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down (Take me down) Take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down, come on Charming devil, silver tongue Had your fun, now you're done Mama warned me 'bout your games She don't like you anyway No more calling me baby No more loving like crazy No more chicken and gravy Ain't gonna have your baby 'Til you take me down (Take me down) You better take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down (Take me down) You better take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down to the little white church (Take me down) Take me down Take me down to the little white church Take me down (Take me down) You better take me down (You better take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down (Take me down) You better take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down (Take me down) You better take me down (Take me down) Take me down to the little white church Take me down to the little white church Take me down to the little white church

Why don't we stop foolin' ourselves? The game is over, over, over No good times, no bad times There's no times at all Just The New York Times Sittin' on the windowsill Near the flowers We might as well be apart It hardly matters, we sleep separately And drop a smile passin' in the hall But there's no laughs left 'Cause we laughed them all And we laughed them all In a very short time Time is tapping on my forehead Hangin' from my mirror Rattlin' the teacups And I wonder- How long can I delay? We're just a habit, like saccharin And I'm habitually feelin' kinda blue But each time I try on the thought of leavin' you I stop I stop and think it over

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit Blessed is the lamb whose blood flows Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on Oh, Lord, why have you forsaken me? I got no place to go I've walked around Soho for the last night or so Ah, but it doesn't matter, no Blessed is the land and the kingdom Blessed is the man whose soul belongs to Blessed are the meth drinkers, pot sellers, illusion dwellers Oh, Lord, why have you forsaken me? My words trickle down From a wound that I have no intention to heal Blessed are the stained glass, window pane glass Blessed is the church service, makes me nervous Blessed are the penny rookers, cheap hookers, groovy lookers Oh, Lord, why have you forsaken me? I, I have tended my own garden much too long

Cloudy The sky is gray and white and cloudy Sometimes I think it's hanging down on me And it's a hitchhike a hundred miles I'm a ragamuffin child Pointed finger, painted smile I left my shadow waitin' down the road for me a while Cloudy My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy They have no borders, no boundaries They echo and they swell From Tolstoy to Tinker Bell Down from Berkeley to Carmel Got some pictures in my pocket and a lot of time to kill Hey, sunshine I haven't seen you in a long time Why don't you show your face and bend my mind? These clouds stick to the sky Like a floating question, "Why?" They linger there to die They don't know where they're going and, my friend, neither do I Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy

Old friends, old friends Sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes Of the high shoes of the old friends Old friends, winter companions, the old men Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset The sounds of the city sifting through trees Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends Can you imagine us years from today Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly strange to be 70 Old friends, memory brushes the same years Silently sharing the same fears