"So you see I have come to doubt all that I once held as true" As I live longer that hits harder.

Picture it…Connecticut…1986 As newlyweds, this was one of a handful of songs my husband would sing me to sleep with when I had a bad headache. Sometimes I swear he’d sing an hour. He died last month. Now it all Qcomes flooding back.

@martincalloway-jy2nk

5 ай бұрын

😔

I have said this elsewhere but I'll say it again. The three greatest poets of the 1960s are Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Paul Simon.

@ianthomas5955

4 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more, Jerome - I've been saying the same thing for half a century! Have you noticed the common thread - all North American, all Jewish, all of quite restricted height and all bearing surnames comprising five letters!

@jerometaperman7102

4 ай бұрын

@@ianthomas5955- Of course, Dylan's real name is Zimmerman but no matter. I never knew Paul Simon was Jewish but that is no matter, either. I love all three of them.

@ianthomas5955

4 ай бұрын

Yes, of course, I know Dylan's real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman - this was just a whimsical observation on my part! @@jerometaperman7102

@lesliescott2362

2 ай бұрын

Bob Dylan's legal name is Dylan. But he was born a Zimmerman.

@jerometaperman7102

2 ай бұрын

@@lesliescott2362 - Zat so? That makes two things I’ve learned by making this comment. Thanks.

I remember 1968, staying up late into the night learning to play this on my little Sears guitar for the Jr. High school talent show. Now 53 years later I'll play along the best my old fingers can, and savor those memories with a cup of pre-dawn tea. My all time favorite of yours. It's rhythmic beauty is timeless. Thank you.

@Karmakatt6

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a huge fan of Paul but Arties voice just knocks my socks off.. the Concert in Central Park is just sublime..

@Robnord1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Karmakatt6 Indeed! The voice of an angel.

@davidschmidt6013

2 жыл бұрын

It's the trying that makes it for us. I';m a few years older than you and did the exact same thing. Glad we were both alive to be part of this master's time.

@vikepfukrei1519

2 жыл бұрын

why did this tear me up.

@ianthomas5955

9 ай бұрын

Because it's art in its purest form. Grabs you by the throat, puts you through the wringer, then sets you down again having injected you with mind-searing emotion.@@vikepfukrei1519

I hear the drizzle of the rain Like a memory it falls Soft and warm continuing Tapping on my roof and walls And from the shelter of my mind Through the window of my eyes I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets To England where my heart lies My mind's distracted and confused My thoughts are many miles away They lie with you in your sleep And kiss you when you start your day And this song I was writing is left undone I don't know why I spend my time Writing songs I can't believe With words that tear and strain to rhyme And so you see I have come to doubt All that I once held as true I stand alone without beliefs The only truth I know is you And as I watch the drops of rain Weave their weary paths and die I know that I am like the rain There but for the grace of you go I

@selamatkan_bumi

7 күн бұрын

​@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815OK, thank you darling, I've changed it ❤

I think Paul's early songs were in many ways his best, the haunting incisiveness of the lyrics, the sincerity of his singing and the atmospheric acoustic guitar work. As most people know, this song was inspired by his English girlfriend of his time spent touring England in the mid-60's and is one of my favourite Paul Simon songs. Sadly, Kathy Chitty passed away a few years ago but she is immortalised in this beautiful and moving example of Paul's incomparable genius.

@brendanekins2159

5 ай бұрын

Beautiful post.

@joebloggs396

4 ай бұрын

Plus she's on the cover.

@christinetaylor70

4 ай бұрын

genius indeed

Happened upon this one and can’t understand why this is my first time hearing it. Love Paul Simon and my name is Kathy and this is my song.

No love song, absolutely NO love song moves my heart as much as this one! ... The melody, the feeling in the voice, the guitar which sounds like rain drops and the lyrics are simply magical! ... "So, you see I have come to doubt, all that I once held as true. I stand alone without believes, the only truth I know is you." Those particular words I think are my favourite lyrics ever written... THe first time I heard this precious song was in Stockholm 2004, when I heard it live. That song really helped me, since I was going through a lot of emotional healing at the time. Thank you, Paul Simon for a musical pearl!! Warmth from Nenne in Sweden

@LS1conehead

4 ай бұрын

YES! It is that line in particular which sets this song above all else as the ultimate expression of love, whether requited or unrequited. 😉

The only truth I know is you. Gets me every time.😢

@LS1conehead

4 ай бұрын

Yup! 😢

@jacksonmorganfroghin4815

8 күн бұрын

The only truth I know is Jesus Christ who claimed to be the way, the truth and the life. When I discovered that to be true then I was able to handle anything including losing the love of my life. Having said that, I maintain this is a very beautiful song that I can totally relate to. There is hope for all of us. I have been happily married for over 25 years ....and still crazy after all these years, just not as crazy as I used to be!!

The sign of a great song is when you imagine its just for you and no one else can hear it. Thanks Paul for writing and singing this just for me.

This is what the inside of a human heart feels like.

One of Paul Simon’s most beautiful songs.

@LS1conehead

4 ай бұрын

One of the greatest, if not THE greatest love song ever written/played, by anyone, EVER, PERIOD!!

One of the greatest classes I had in 9th grade in Huntington Beach, CA. I had a teacher that taught literature and he had us examine the lyrics of Simon. We had heard him, but never understood how deep his songs were. It opened my eyes to his genius.

Perhaps one of the sweetest love songs that came from Paul Simon. Warmth. Love. And either version, with Paul singing or Art singing, works.

If I really could say "I have a favourite song", this would be the one I would pick. After "Sound of Silence". Which would be my second pick after "Bridge over troubled water". Oh, who cares? They are all brilliant.

I wish I could tell Paul how much his music has made my life better. Tried to send him fan mail. It was returned. I wish I could send him some bottled happiness. He deserves it. He has made the world a better place through his music. Thanks.

@amandalynngibson8332

2 жыл бұрын

YES. My life has been affected by this man's music. Since I was 8 or 9, and he was a big fan of my father! The first song on the first Simon & Garfunkle album ( Wed Morning) is one of my Dad's songs. And yes, my Dad's music has been part of my life. But nowhere as much as Paul Simon. I would love to talk to him. His songs are so intimate, or deep, or vulnerable, or prayerful, or playful. He has been a great friend to me through his music. No one is more diverse! Joan Armatrading comes close.... Love you Paul! For so many years. And through lots tears. Shalom & Namaste

@mrball3417

2 жыл бұрын

@@amandalynngibson8332 Garfunkel is your father?

@amandalynngibson8332

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrball3417 NO. Bob Gibson.

@mrball3417

2 жыл бұрын

@@amandalynngibson8332 Oh nice

@LeoraLaGraffe

Жыл бұрын

I understand your feelings completely and have at times in my younger years felt the same longing to tell him. But then I thought of how deep his music is…how he is an INFP and 4 w 5…and realized, he already knows. He knows more than we could ever tell him with our words, what his music means to us. We can rest easy knowing he understands before we speak, all we wish we could express to him.

Paul's most beautiful and perfect song

This song is a masterpiece, one of my favourites by Paul! Can give you hope with its love and incredibly strong sense of affection or tear you apart with its sadness and longing. Approach with caution if you're missing someone! :..)

I fell in love with & was enthralled with S&G music from the very first time I heard a song by them being sung by a senior in college in the late 60s. In Delhi. It was - The Dangling Conversation.. Getting records in India was so difficult, those days, as almost nothing they produced had reached or caught our youth generation here in India.. then. Then they caught on like wildfire.. But EMI brought out their The Sounds Of Silence album, that I saved up for & bought. Then came across one of their first albums ever - Wednesday Morning at 3 am... written mostly During their England sojourn, period..Kathy being the name of the girl Paul was very much in love with, in London . Found It either in the University Ford Foundation library, or the USIS in Delhi. Bookends followed, since we were a close knit group of S&G lovers, who shared music - taught each other & learned to pick, finger plucking style, the guitar, played in the folk style that performers & singers used to play in the 60s & 70s. Esp Paul Simon's ... versions The movie The Graduate that came to cinemas then, had so many of their then current hits.. played beautifully, April, etc etc Followed BY their album we then got from the UK, Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme, played with intermittent lines interspersed with Canticle, an old English traditional song, that blended beautifully with PSR & Thyme. Then all their other music before & after they broke up..& reunited for... the Concert in the Park.. A magical growing up era.. that blended so beautifully with our Own growing up & our own formative young adult years.. and the issues we faced as young people growing up. Love, loneliness, friendship, separation, broken hearts, alienation etc etc Their music & songs were so poignant, sensitive & captured that era so beautifully.. As Someone sensitive once remarked /observed / wrote, a music critic or some observant soul - that their / Paul's early music albums, compositions - ESP before they went electronic, like Bob Dylan & others..- their early music was like church, choral music, in its tones, composition, 2 part harmonies and chordal progressions & themes. Deeply affected & inspired by them. And as one brought up in similar choirs, singing choral music in 4 part harmony, I concurred with that keen observation.. ESP the early S&G. They were blessed with Talent richly.. ___ Thank you so much for this evocative version, I remember still the words of all their songs..after all these years..❗ Thank you. 🍀🎼🎵🎶🎙🎤🎧📻🎸🎹

“There but for the grace of you go I.” The line that told me it was right to propose to M.

56 years later, I still remember every word of this song by heart.

Always loved Kathy’s Song.

I don’t know what it is but I can’t listen to this song ever without tearing up

@LS1conehead

4 ай бұрын

Same here.

This is just about the most perfect love song ever! I remember hearing it way back in 67 or 68 but not really focusing on it till now all these years later. I was too young to appreciate it though I loved their album Bookends especially the song America which is also about a girl named Kathy. It was my favorite S&G tune until this one.

@robertlevine2827

8 күн бұрын

"'Kathy, I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping ..."

I'm spanish and in this version Paul vocalizes very clearly. I'm delighted

This song reminds me of my Tracy. I miss her so much. I wish I could go back in time and never let her go. Jealousy destroyed me and now I'm alone.

He is in the top 10 of songwriters in the second half of the 20th Century, never mind a Category, in my case, his Melodie’s are beautiful and his lyrics pure poetry, thanks for all these years of laughter and tears that your song has brought off to millions of people.

The most beautiful song ever. The sincerity pours from each word. I have loved this from the first time I heard it. Still sooths my soul decades later.

I’ve come to realize what’s missing in today’s music: substance, depth.

@ianthomas5955

4 ай бұрын

You've put your finger right on it, Suzanne. I've been immersed in contemporary music for the last 64 years and watched with dismay as the quality and originality has gradually deteriorated and we're now left with a desert of mediocrity (with the very occasional small oasis, if you know where to look.) I was lucky enough to see Simon and Garfunkel in concert at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester (UK) in April 1968 and their performance was sheer unmitigated magic. I know it's an old cliche, but we'll never see their like again. Luckily, we can still enjoy the albums - both as a duo and Paul's solo work - and I never tire of listening to them all these years later.

@dezcrawford

Ай бұрын

What, you don't like repetitive and meaningless phrases, peppered with the word "b*tch," strung out over a pounding rhytmn from an electronic drum set? Good, neither do I. Let's be friends.

@ianthomas5955

Ай бұрын

@@dezcrawford You got me in one, Dez. Nice to know someone out there has taste.

True genius is not found in so many words but in the careful selection of just a few that say so much. Brilliant writing here Paul. Placing your love in the same spot as God himself.

Look to our Lord, not any human

@ianmcintosh418

5 ай бұрын

God gives us our people because he cannot be here.

Thankyou Mr Simon.....for everything.xdean.

Lovely version, the best perhaps?

Beautiful............... absolutely beautiful. A tribute to those loved.

Paul is one of the best guitar player in the world. His talent is so underestimate.

Always loved this song .. ♬‧*˚✧♬‧*˚✧ .. One of my S&G favourites. Fabulous picking.

Beautiful.

@poom641

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful beautiful

Those opening chords so familiar so comforting

The song that made me decide to learn the guitar and try to write songs.

Just heard a bit of this played and sung by someone else in the movie Maid in Manhattan. I recognized it right away as an old song I loved checked the credits for the name. Of course it is this one. I always loved this since it came out.

Sounds good, thank you for the video.

an eternally beautiful song ...

magnifique chanson et magnifique chanteur

I've known this song with the version made by Eva Cassidy. It's so beautiful and sad.

paul didnt stand a chance against the musical muse. he's but a nonresistive channel of creativity and consciousness.

lovely

The only truth I know is YOU

@frankschwartz5269

Жыл бұрын

Fact

Pięknie Paul😊

El día que escuché su disco greates Song de 1972 fue suficiente para enamorarme de la música de la época de toda la poesía que allí nacía letra a letra

Gorgeous song. Is the girl in the picture the "real" Kathy?

@DanyLove48

Жыл бұрын

Yes she is. She was pictured in a newspaper a few years ago, in the north of England.

🎶❤️🎵

First Time Music 🎶 to My ear I love All song 🌹💓 Hear 🌹💔 But when you hear about music for you first Time you listen to Him and The sound of yourself voice 😶 know I like your heat sound map video call to us All Allow to get out there

オリジナルのスリーフィンガー奏法ですね。年代によって弾き方も変わって来ていて、現在と聴き比べてみてください。僕もそういう風に弾いて今います。YellowSimon

I wonder if she is still alive?

@barryhorne2

9 ай бұрын

Yes. She left Paul Simon because she couldn't live with the pressure his new found fame bought them. She lives quietly in Wales now.

@brendanekins2159

5 ай бұрын

Died 5ish years ago.

Believe in Jesus, his forgiveness His love is for eternity! John 3:16

@frankschwartz5269

Жыл бұрын

Keep Jesus out of here

@frankschwartz5269

Жыл бұрын

Simon and Garfunkel exist.