A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
What I think he means in this verse is that there is this man who’s having a bit of a midlife crisis, he’s maybe a bit fat as suggested sejak “Soft in the middle now” and he’s obviously not happy about where he is.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Anjing in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
anda know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
I think these are the person’s fears, mainly death as we can see “I don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard” and “Bonedigger” along with a few other lines in the verse. After all he’s a middle aged man who is overweight and having a rough time, maybe he thinks he’s going to die before he can properly live out his life. The fact that he doesn’t find this stuff amusing any lebih is saying that he is tired of this and wants change.
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long Lost pal
I can call anda Betty
And Betty when anda call me
anda can call me Al
The reason for “Al” and “Betty” as the names came from a party that Paul Simon and his wife, Peggy held in the 70s. One of the guests was French and mistook their names for Al and Betty. In relation to the story I think that because at the time this song was written Africa was under heavy segregation (Apartheid) where the whites and the blacks were separated. Despite this Paul Simon went over to the black part of Africa anyway, an act that which received a lot of heat, even the black leaders felt hindered their cause. I believe this song is about a man travelling to Africa to find the before mentioned redemption, thinking he may find peace. But of course a man alone visiting a continent in turmoil because of the whites, something he was, maybe he felt at risk. I assume he found a friend who he felt he could travel with safely, a bodyguard.
A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
Naturally he will feel a little Lost and a little scared, he’s a ikan out of water alone in a place he has never been to and will no doubt be looking over his shoulder and maybe regretting his decision. I have only left my country twice, once to go to Ireland and once to go to Egypt. While I didn’t feel much fear in my one hari trip to my neighbor, I felt s feverish paranoia during my two week visit to Egypt during the riots a few years back. A kid in a third world country who grew up with the fears of Islamophobia shaking the world, “What if I die here” is no doubt something going through the character’s head. He’s grown up with fierce racism making blacks seem barbaric and a lesser race, not only that but alone in this pretty much different world. But I don’t think the person is racist but there is no denying that the fear is there.
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations
This part of the verse stumped me for a while but I think I finally have it. Not only is the man in the song having a midlife crisis he’s having a moment of realization. This role-model he is talking about is himself, he’s wandering through this foreign land looking back on his life and seeing it for what it is. This is a man who, for a long time, thought he was in the right, a role model. But in closer inspection when he puts it in perspective and papar it for what it really is he realizes how ridiculous it all is. The alley is not a desirable place and a roly-poly little bat-faced girl isn’t a desirable partner. Maybe he’s looking back on his younger days, going to bars from dusk until dawn having one night stands with people he maybe shouldn’t have hooked up with because in the end Cinta making also requires Cinta and the main goal really for relationships is finding someone anda Cinta and growing with them. Not just a quick one night get together and never see each other again and if they do, have a quick awkward “oh hi... I need to go"
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long Lost pal
I can call anda Betty
And Betty when anda call me
anda can call me Al
Call me Al
Again, he’s found someone he trusts to guide him through this new world.
A man walks down the street
It's a jalan in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
This verse is pretty much self explanatory, continuing with the theme that the song is about a man coming to Africa then we can pretty much read this entire verse literally without having to go too deep into it.
He is surrounded sejak the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
This verse also had me stumped. The words create a powerful joyful, tension-shattering contrast between the mundane and the sublime. The same device is found in many great lyric poems including “The Windhover” sejak Gerald Manley Hopkins and “Sailing to the Byzantium” sejak W.B. Yaetes but weather it’s a verse of literal meaning atau the words symbolise something is what I’m unsure on. I have seen people relate “Cattle in the marketplace” to stockbrokers in dinding Street, their interpretation being it’s an African coming to America and viewing things as a American might view Africa but when it comes to my Muzik video I think I will just leave it as a man walking through a crowded marketplace if that is the direction I am going to take my Muzik video in.
He looks around, around
He sees Bidadari in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!
In this final part of the song I think we have a very beautiful conclusion to the tale of a man having a existential midlife crisis, unhappy with his life, maybe an unhealthy alcoholic. Who has come to a completely different world and culture and he has found redemption, he has found beauty in the world, he has found God.
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long Lost pal
I can call anda Betty
And Betty when anda call me
anda can call me Al
Call me Al
And to bahagian, atas it off, one last chorus as the ceri, cherry on the cake.
Conclusion:
I think it’s clear when anda look at the history of the song and have a closer look at the lyrics what this song is about. It’s quite an inspirational song, when depression and the realization of what your life is and has been hits most just drink away the pain until they eventually die their miserable death, the character here has not just let the misery take hold, he has left the world he knows seeking happiness which as we can see he eventually found. Hopefully this man lived the rest of his life happy, whether he went back to his utama country atau stayed in Africa with his new friend. In the end what Paul Simon created bore lebih resemblance to puisi than song Penulisan which was only improved with the great Muzik which also had African like sounds, using musicians he discovered in his time there. In the end this isn’t a typical song about partying and sex which today especially has over saturated the Muzik industry, this is a song about seeking happiness in a world which we may think has none, but when we look for it, there’s lebih than enough to go around.
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
What I think he means in this verse is that there is this man who’s having a bit of a midlife crisis, he’s maybe a bit fat as suggested sejak “Soft in the middle now” and he’s obviously not happy about where he is.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Anjing in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
anda know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
I think these are the person’s fears, mainly death as we can see “I don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard” and “Bonedigger” along with a few other lines in the verse. After all he’s a middle aged man who is overweight and having a rough time, maybe he thinks he’s going to die before he can properly live out his life. The fact that he doesn’t find this stuff amusing any lebih is saying that he is tired of this and wants change.
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long Lost pal
I can call anda Betty
And Betty when anda call me
anda can call me Al
The reason for “Al” and “Betty” as the names came from a party that Paul Simon and his wife, Peggy held in the 70s. One of the guests was French and mistook their names for Al and Betty. In relation to the story I think that because at the time this song was written Africa was under heavy segregation (Apartheid) where the whites and the blacks were separated. Despite this Paul Simon went over to the black part of Africa anyway, an act that which received a lot of heat, even the black leaders felt hindered their cause. I believe this song is about a man travelling to Africa to find the before mentioned redemption, thinking he may find peace. But of course a man alone visiting a continent in turmoil because of the whites, something he was, maybe he felt at risk. I assume he found a friend who he felt he could travel with safely, a bodyguard.
A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
Naturally he will feel a little Lost and a little scared, he’s a ikan out of water alone in a place he has never been to and will no doubt be looking over his shoulder and maybe regretting his decision. I have only left my country twice, once to go to Ireland and once to go to Egypt. While I didn’t feel much fear in my one hari trip to my neighbor, I felt s feverish paranoia during my two week visit to Egypt during the riots a few years back. A kid in a third world country who grew up with the fears of Islamophobia shaking the world, “What if I die here” is no doubt something going through the character’s head. He’s grown up with fierce racism making blacks seem barbaric and a lesser race, not only that but alone in this pretty much different world. But I don’t think the person is racist but there is no denying that the fear is there.
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations
This part of the verse stumped me for a while but I think I finally have it. Not only is the man in the song having a midlife crisis he’s having a moment of realization. This role-model he is talking about is himself, he’s wandering through this foreign land looking back on his life and seeing it for what it is. This is a man who, for a long time, thought he was in the right, a role model. But in closer inspection when he puts it in perspective and papar it for what it really is he realizes how ridiculous it all is. The alley is not a desirable place and a roly-poly little bat-faced girl isn’t a desirable partner. Maybe he’s looking back on his younger days, going to bars from dusk until dawn having one night stands with people he maybe shouldn’t have hooked up with because in the end Cinta making also requires Cinta and the main goal really for relationships is finding someone anda Cinta and growing with them. Not just a quick one night get together and never see each other again and if they do, have a quick awkward “oh hi... I need to go"
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long Lost pal
I can call anda Betty
And Betty when anda call me
anda can call me Al
Call me Al
Again, he’s found someone he trusts to guide him through this new world.
A man walks down the street
It's a jalan in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
This verse is pretty much self explanatory, continuing with the theme that the song is about a man coming to Africa then we can pretty much read this entire verse literally without having to go too deep into it.
He is surrounded sejak the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
This verse also had me stumped. The words create a powerful joyful, tension-shattering contrast between the mundane and the sublime. The same device is found in many great lyric poems including “The Windhover” sejak Gerald Manley Hopkins and “Sailing to the Byzantium” sejak W.B. Yaetes but weather it’s a verse of literal meaning atau the words symbolise something is what I’m unsure on. I have seen people relate “Cattle in the marketplace” to stockbrokers in dinding Street, their interpretation being it’s an African coming to America and viewing things as a American might view Africa but when it comes to my Muzik video I think I will just leave it as a man walking through a crowded marketplace if that is the direction I am going to take my Muzik video in.
He looks around, around
He sees Bidadari in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!
In this final part of the song I think we have a very beautiful conclusion to the tale of a man having a existential midlife crisis, unhappy with his life, maybe an unhealthy alcoholic. Who has come to a completely different world and culture and he has found redemption, he has found beauty in the world, he has found God.
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long Lost pal
I can call anda Betty
And Betty when anda call me
anda can call me Al
Call me Al
And to bahagian, atas it off, one last chorus as the ceri, cherry on the cake.
Conclusion:
I think it’s clear when anda look at the history of the song and have a closer look at the lyrics what this song is about. It’s quite an inspirational song, when depression and the realization of what your life is and has been hits most just drink away the pain until they eventually die their miserable death, the character here has not just let the misery take hold, he has left the world he knows seeking happiness which as we can see he eventually found. Hopefully this man lived the rest of his life happy, whether he went back to his utama country atau stayed in Africa with his new friend. In the end what Paul Simon created bore lebih resemblance to puisi than song Penulisan which was only improved with the great Muzik which also had African like sounds, using musicians he discovered in his time there. In the end this isn’t a typical song about partying and sex which today especially has over saturated the Muzik industry, this is a song about seeking happiness in a world which we may think has none, but when we look for it, there’s lebih than enough to go around.
cari for "The boxer, berdan composed bu Paul Simon atau cari for the band name "The City Of Heroes" and anda will find a new version of Paul Simon's classic "The Boxer".
The song was produced in Montreal, Canada and released under a license from Paul Simon's Music. It features the acoustic gitar and vocal harmonies backed sejak the band "The City Of Heroes" and singer Simon Potts.
Here is the iTunes Link
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cari for "The boxer, berdan composed bu Paul Simon atau cari for the band name "The City Of Heroes" and anda will find a new version of Paul Simon's classic "The Boxer".
The song was produced in Montreal, Canada and released under a license from Paul Simon's Music. It features the acoustic gitar and vocal harmonies backed sejak the band "The City Of Heroes" and singer Simon Potts.
Here is the iTunes Link
link
The song was produced in Montreal, Canada and released under a license from Paul Simon's Music. It features the acoustic gitar and vocal harmonies backed sejak the band "The City Of Heroes" and singer Simon Potts.
Here is the iTunes Link
link
cari for "The boxer, berdan composed bu Paul Simon atau cari for the band name "The City Of Heroes" and anda will find a new version of Paul Simon's classic "The Boxer".
The song was produced in Montreal, Canada and released under a license from Paul Simon's Music. It features the acoustic gitar and vocal harmonies backed sejak the band "The City Of Heroes" and singer Simon Potts.
Here is the iTunes Link
link