A Poem on the Underground Wall (Live at Lincoln Center, New York City, NY - January 1967)-Simon & Garfunkel

[00:00.00] 作词 : Paul Simon [00:01.00] 作曲 : Paul Simon [00:07.50]The first album that we recorded for Columbia called "Wednesday Morning, 3 am" [00:13.70]Has a picture on the cover of Paul and myself in the uh subway system, [00:19.00]In New York here, [00:20.00]Standing at the uh 5th Ave. station next to an iron post. [00:24.80]If you know the album then you're familiar with the picture. [00:28.50]What you're not familiar with is the trouble... [00:32.00]That we went through in order to get that final picture, [00:34.50]Because the original shots that were taken for the uh cover [00:39.00]Were taken off... off the uh picture that you see, [00:43.00]Standing against the subway wall on the platform [00:46.00]Underneath the subway sign and... [00:49.50]We took about 500 pictures [00:52.00]Until we were satisfied with the perfect James Dean shot [00:57.00]And packed up the cameras and guitars [01:00.00]And as we left the station I took a glance at the subway wall [01:05.80]In front of which we had taken all the pictures for the first time that day [01:10.00]And noticed that written there - rather legibly, in the baroque style [01:17.00]Common to New York subway wall writers - [01:21.50]Was uh... was the "old familiar suggestion". [01:27.00] [01:37.50]And rather beautifully illustrated as well. [01:40.50]So... [01:41.50] [01:46.00]Well we had a conference with Columbia records to decide what to do about this problem [01:50.00]And uh of course we immediately told Columbia that this was exactly what we wanted on the cover of the LP. [02:00.00]"- Forget it." [02:02.00]I'm, um, mentioning this because we have taken a song - it's now two years later - [02:07.80]Paul has written a song fairly recently in London [02:12.00]Dealing with the uh theme of people who write on subway walls [02:15.00]But treating the theme in a rather strange and serious way. [02:19.30]The song is called "A Poem on the Underground Wall". [02:22.00] [02:26.00]A Poem on the Underground Wall (Live in New York, 1967) [02:31.50]Simon & Garfunkel [02:35.00] [02:44.00]The last train is nearly due [02:46.40]The underground is closing soon [02:48.50]And in the dark deserted station [02:51.00]Restless in anticipation [02:53.00]A man waits in the shadows [02:56.50] [02:59.50]His restless eyes leap and scratch [03:01.50]At all that they can touch or catch [03:04.20]And hidden deep within his pocket [03:06.40]Safe within its silent socket [03:08.05]He holds a colored crayon [03:12.00] [03:14.50]Now from the tunnel's stony womb [03:16.80]The carriage rides to meet the groom [03:19.00]And opens wide and welcome doors [03:20.80]But he hesitates [03:22.60]Then withdraws deeper in the shadows [03:30.00] [03:30.50]And the train is gone suddenly [03:34.80]On wheels clicking silently [03:38.50]Like a gently tapping litany [03:42.00]And he holds his crayon rosary [03:45.50]Tighter in his hand [03:49.50] [03:50.80]Now from his pocket quick he flashes [03:52.50]The crayon on the wall he slashes [03:55.00]Deep upon the advertising [03:57.00]A single worded poem comprised [03:59.00]Of four letters [04:00.20] [04:02.80]And his heart is laughing, screaming, pounding [04:04.80]The poem across the tracks rebounding [04:07.00]Shadowed by the exit light [04:09.00]His legs take their ascending flight [04:11.20]To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night [04:19.50]