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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

Paul Simon

She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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Bad Day Goodness Myself Rain Thinking
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Believe Brick Myself Natural Power Wall
We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Believe Better Hope Life Survive
I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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Crazy Happiness Lover Old Ourselves Time
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Age Time
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Laughter Myself Thinking
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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Emotional Feeling Listening Myself Reveal Right Sentimental
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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Camera Care Man Myself
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Heart Broken Lose Love Window
Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
PAUL SIMON

Author Guide Knowledge Mentor Myself
Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Goodness Myself Thinking
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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Lost Measurement Note Place Reading
Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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Fact Goodness Happiness Health Money Myself Young
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Break Up Leave Lover
I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
PAUL SIMON

Beginning Known See Writing Yourself

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