Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends

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From my personal favorite concert in Central Park, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel singing Old Friends. The vocals are just amazing.

Someone requested the lyrics, so here they are:

OLD FRIENDS LYRICS:

Old friends,
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends.
A newspaper blown though 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 seventy.
Old friends,
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears

BOOKENDS LYRICS:

Time it was and what a time it was it was,
A time of innocence a time of confidences.

Long ago it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, theyre all thats left you

59TH STREET BRIDGE SONG (FEELIN' GROOVY) LYRICS:

Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.

Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da...Feelin' Groovy.

Hello lamp-post,
What cha knowin'?
I've come to watch your flowers growin'.
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' doo-doo,
Feelin' groovy.

I've got no deeds to do,
No promises to keep.
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep.
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me.
Life, I love you,
All is groovy.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: August 26, 2006 at 12:22 am
Author: Tom64

Length: 00:05:32
Rating: 4.92
Views: 421747

Tags: Paul Simon Art Garfunkel Old Friends

Video Comments:
ysplse (August 21, 2008 at 6:33 pm)
Terribly strange to be 70, I'm nearer that now than when this song was written how time fly's
crabroom (August 21, 2008 at 5:33 pm)
Awesome
Changes4TheBetter (August 17, 2008 at 4:54 pm)
Amen, and the Sun Breaks Thru
idle44 (August 17, 2008 at 2:41 am)
A song about me and my friends.

It just proves it is better to be two rather than one
FactMaster2020G (August 8, 2008 at 3:13 am)
As influensial as anybody in the 60"s
mromeyn (August 2, 2008 at 10:25 pm)
They definately have written the soundtrack of my life... Thanks..for this...
"what a time, a time it was, it was a time"

Thanx for posting these!
yadzx (July 25, 2008 at 8:49 pm)
Perfection

written and performed brilliantly

AWESOME ..........
degree7 (July 24, 2008 at 8:09 pm)
I find the lyrics really sad, like: ...preserve your memories, they're all that's left you...

:'( Quite sad really
derdav2 (August 1, 2008 at 12:19 am)
memories keep people you love alive,it is all thats left you but without them whats the point of life
bobbyiscool1992 (July 19, 2008 at 7:00 pm)
1981