I love this
song
Ever since
I purchased Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits
It was
reported that Paul Simon wrote this on Widnes Railway Station
I worked in
Widnes many years ago, so the song has
always had great memories for me.
Whenever I
am away from my family and friends
I think of
this song and sing it to myself.
Enjoy.
Simon talked about this song in a 1990 interview with
SongTalk magazine:
"That was written in Liverpool
when I was traveling. What I like about that is that it has a very clear memory
of Liverpool station and the streets of Liverpool
and the club I played at and me at age 22. It's like a snapshot, a photograph
of a long time ago. I like that about it but I don't like the song that much.
First of all, it's not an original title. That's one of the main problems with
it. It's been around forever. No, the early songs I can't say I really like
them. But there's something naive and sweet-natured and I must say I like that
about it. They're not angry. And that means that I wasn't angry or unhappy. And
that's my memory of that time: it was just about idyllic. It was just the best
time of my life, I think, up until recently, these last five years or so, six
years... This has been the best time of my life. But before that, I would say
that that was.
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