A change of mood
A summer storm erased the sunny sky
Two hapless hitchhikers were signaling us
As we were cruising by
Not in the mood
For idle chat or hitchhike company
Nevertheless
We took them on as highway courtesy
Hurry get yourselves inside the truck
We're just going up a ways
The rain should turn to mist with any luck
And you can find a place to stay
The woman spoke
Her voice a blend
Of regional perfumes
We have no destination
The moon and stars
Provide us with our rooms
My boy and me
We're refugees of sorts
From my home town
They don't like different there
They would have mowed us down
He doesn't talk much anymore
Just to the voices in his head
The boy just gazed down at the floor
And nodded once or twice at what she said
The sacred harp
That David played to make his songs of praise
We long to hear those strings
That set his heart ablaze
The ringing strings
The thought that God turns music into bliss...
We left the pick-up in the driveway
The moon appeared as amber in the mist
The Lord
The Lord is a puff of smoke
That disappears when the winds blow
The Lord is my personal joke
My reflection in the window
I've been thinking about our tribal nature
Our benediction and our curse
Are we all just trial and error
One of a billion in the universe?
The Lord is my engineer
The Lord is my record producer
The Lord is the music I hear
Deep in the valley, elusive
The Lord is my engineer
The Lord is the train I ride on
The Lord is the coast, the coast is clear
The path I slip and I slide on
Paul Simon:
Guitarras: Acústica, eléctrica de cuerdas altas, dobro y barítono.
Percusión: Campanas, gongs, pandero, tambor parlante, gamelán, gopichand,
Cloud-Chamber Bowls y armónica de bajo.
Teclados, etc: Glockenspiel, chromelodeon y armonio.
Jamey Haddad:
Hadphoon, hadjira, bombo gran cassa y Almglocken (campanas afinadas en Suiza)
Edie Brickell: Dueto
Voces8: Voces
© 2023 Paul Simon
Disco: Seven Psalms
Comentarios: Uuno de los momentos más narrativos y cinematográficos de Seven Psalms, y una pieza clave para entender el corazón del disco. Tiene algo de road movie, algo de salmo, algo de parábola y algo de confesión íntima. Es una canción que se transforma ante nuestros oídos: empieza con una historia sencilla y se va diluyendo poco a poco en una reflexión espiritual cargada de imágenes enigmáticas y melancólicas.