Paul Simon - Graceland (Official Audio)
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Lyrics:
I'm going to Graceland, Graceland
Memphis, Tennessee, I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage
But I've reason to believe
We both will be received in Graceland
#PaulSimon #Graceland #OfficialAudio
*Paul Simon should have received a Nobel Prize for this album!*
Excellent observation. Wow -- it really did have an impact on the world worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, including divisive controversy.
It is perfection
Boy, I agree with that!
Yes! This album is awesome
The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar....what an opening line.
Comparable with "Hello darkness my old friend".
My absolute fave.
Fantastic. Paul Simon was on the radio the other day talking about his lyrics writing process. Was quite interesting.
ONE OF THE VERY BEST
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Yes, you would think it can't get any better, and then you come across "Losing love is like a window in your heart"...
I have reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.
❤
Living Colour - "Elvis is Dead"
I can't say it without singing it.
With that fab track playing 😊
We all will be received !!
One of the finest albums of all time
Paul Simon completely re-invented himself with Graceland, the album. An artistically brilliant album.
@Paul SimonI am most humbled to get a message from a true legend. I was already listening to the great Paul Simon when I was a young boy in the 70' ; such classics like Mardi Gras were staple diet on our local radio in the then Rhodesia. My greatest moment was seeing the legend in person during your ground-breaking Gracelands world tour, the Harare leg in 1987. Long live and happiness to my hero!
Thank you Legend.
@Paul Simon Most definitely. Only too glad to do so.
One of the greatest albums ever
My father raised me listening to this album. It is such a part of my fabric. Thanks Dad!
And she said, "losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow...
I'm going to Graceland, Graceland
hands down one of the greatest songs of all time
I refuse to disagree!
Have to agree. My favorite album ever
man you are totally right !!
tied in a very foreign stlye of guitar with contemporary music, it's always going to be one of my favourite songs, it evokes so many emotions in me
what about the boy in the bubble ? atleast the best one on the album...but yeah good one
Lisa Marie Presley used to hear this song on her road trips she took to her dad's house which later became her house Graceland. She used to put this song on over and over again even if she was on a plane towards Memphis, Tennessee. RIP Lisa and Elvis.
Nice! Thank you. ❤
For some reason, little kids in the 80s and early 90s loved this album as much as their parents.
Lmao that’s because we were forced to listen to whatever tape mom & dad picked and eventually it grew on us.
I was at a party at my cousins’ apartment c. 2008 and we were all taking turns iPod DJing…I think my playlist was like Santigold, TV on the Radio & Lil Wayne and I was mortified when I came back inside and found my “guilty pleasures” playlist blasting this. I ran to unplug it and someone was like “pls no, can we hear Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes next?”
Dude managed to take the two most awful parts of the 80s (Reagan and apartheid) and make a yuppie-friendly album that still totally slaps over 35 years later. Impressive.
I'm Born in 2010 and I Loved thus Album since I was 5 years old
And teens. I was a teen, my parents played this over and over on car trips.
My mom had us play this album all the time.
haha, i am one of those, used to listen to this album in the 90s with my mom while driving in the car, 32 now and regularly come back
Paul Simon a worthy member of the Great American Songbook. This is a mighty song from a mighty album.
My God, what a fabulous piece of music.
I completely agree !
Buietiful piece of music touches my
Soul every time I hear it.
Agreed but today the woke cancel culture would hang him out to dry for "cultural appropriation" using African musicians and sounds for this entire album, the same with Rhythm of the Saints....with him using native South American sounds and musicians...
@@jona5517 this is laughably ignorant
vaya memorias dios mio ... 😍
I listened this on loop in 1986 as an 11 year old on my Walkman. I do believe I know every word of every track on the Album. Very happy times indeed 😊
Kids today don't even know what a Walkman was.
His traveling companion was 9 years old.
I did the same with my walkman CD player in the late 90s with other albums. Thanks for the good memories!
@@747heavyboeing3 Some do, some don't. He was the child of his first marriage.
I was 11 in 1986 and listened the heck out of this song, except it was a tape deck in my parents Jetta when we moved to France
Every word you say? What's the fourth one?
I listen to this song with one reason only: TO RECOVER MY SOUL.
You rule Fish.
Amen
Music heaIs, doesn't it?
Elton John? XD
Me and you both, my friend! This song is like giving my soul a breath of fresh air... It makes my heart smile.
Paul's voice was never better. The album is a masterpiece
Agreed a thousand times over. I grew up with this particular album as a constant. Its soothing and so very well done. Real stroke of genius by Paul.
so glad we have your approval.@@archerynut
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover in my opinion is his best vocal performance.🤷♂️
@@sallyjoanPipe down, Sally.
"She comes back to tell me she's gone..."
I can't get over the quality of that one line. It's 8 words, and it says so much! He's surprised, he's hurt, he has to get across how incredulous he is about this, so he phrases it as an irony, as a contradiction, something almost funny. And the way he sings it really conveys what a slope it is: from hope right down to despair. That is a sharp line, like a needle!
True!!!
Great song writing for sure
As if I didnt know that
as if I didnt know
my own bed
Is that inspired by his relationship with Carrie Fisher? I read somewhere that at least part of that song was inspired by his marriage to her
@@garethhayes2552Googled it just to see: _The lyrics follow the singer's thoughts during a road trip to Graceland after the failure of his marriage. Actress and author Carrie Fisher, Simon's ex-wife, said that the song referred in part to their relationship._
i have a reason to believe we will all be received in GRACELAND....
🤞 And I hope it’s shining like a national guitar or the Mississippi Delta on a full moon’s summer night.
One of the most beautiful and, to me, personal songs writen by Simon. It gives me the goosebumps everything i hear it
Giving me them right now.
@hoffwell Thank you, there are some strange comments here, you're a breath of fresh air
I don’t think Paul Simon gets the respect and honor as a great American singer/songwriter poet. He is an American treasure.
Nah he does
I agree.!
Yes!
I tell you this as a culturally observant non-American westerner (I'm Australian), there are a small cast of zany characters who I think of as being uniquely American. And not in some tacky, flag-waving sense. Someone like Hunter Thompson or Theodore Roosevelt or Bob Dylan. Certain personalities that have been forged by a unique American identity.
I have always understood the _'American-ness'_ of Paul Simon's songs. Like in The Boxer he talks about being in New York in the winter and befriending homeless people and how bad he wants to go home, or in Papa Hobo he sings about how good Detroit's hockey team is and how much carbon dioxide you breathe in while living there.
There's nothing like a Paul Simon song. It's like a folk tale about travelling through he U.S., town by town, and being on some kind of beatnik hobo journey where you sleep in rough places but have lifechanging experiences.
He is absolutely in my eyes an American treasure.
He does
The brilliance of Paul Simon can never be overstated.
Thanks for all of it.
wow for some reason this is one of my all time cry songs… “she comes back to tell me she’s gone… as if i didn’t know that, as if i didn’t know my own bed”
I tear up a little at "losing love is like a window in your heart". Somehow this song is both sad and yet hopeful, that is part of its magic!
Every time I fly international I plug in my earphones and listen to this over and over in its entirety. Other passengers must think I am mad sitting there grooving to what has to be the best music ever.
I believe he went to Africa and picked the melodies... and returned to America and composed the lyrics...
I throw this and The Mars Voltas Frances The Mute on endless repeat on my road trips. Much love from one traveler to another. Happy trails from califooooooorniaaaaa
So you were that guy who listened to Graceland for 13 hours straight the last time I flew to Japan.
Im South African. The 1st time I heard this song i watching the Oprah show in the mid 2000s and I was like 'okay why is an American white guy singing to South African bassline'. I did some searching and that's how I discovered the great Graceland album. I love it
🤛ngena la,mfetu.
I have always wanted to go to South Africa As they say in Zulu Yebo
The song refers to Graceland as a place with a geographic location, yet all the other lyrics indicate that Graceland is not a place in physical existence. Instead, it is the desired destination of outcasts, misfits; the downtrodden and brokenhearted; the hope, the immutable faith, that there is a refuge or solace from our obligation to justify ourselves in this free-fall called Life. Graceland...it must exist. It just has to. A place where there is a sense of homecoming, and the bread in the kitchen is always warm and tasty, somehow, as if it were freshly baked.
Nonsense
No Graceland the king of rock n roll house graceland in Memphis ever heard of it buddy
Of course it is reference to existence after this one which some call Heaven.
@@Iceyyproductions Of course he knows this, because he did say: "The song refers to Graceland as a place with a geographic location, yet,,," I love his deeper metaphorical description of Paul's brilliant lyrics.
This is cool. I think you're right. After reading your description, I think this is a song about loss, hurt and hope. Graceland stands for hope - hope that a "place" exists where outcasts and misfits belong. "I have reason to believe we all be received in Graceland".
She said losing love is like a window in your heart, everybody sees you're blown apart... what a fantastic lyricist, he knows how to paint a picture with words
As if I never noticed the way she brushed her hair and farted
Ive always cherished and admired his ability to stay so real and vulnerable/writing REAL lyrics while in the music industry and famous.
We just went to Graceland today and it was beautiful.
One of the best songs ever.
One of the best ALBUMS ever
@@krazmokramer I agree.
Ir true.....!
100%
Have to agree 👍
‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, everybody sees you’re blown apart, everybody sees the wind blow’
That’s it, that in a nutshell is the twist of emptiness you feel in your chest when it ends, perfect words to express that feeling
As good as it gets...lyrically, musically, rhythmically...an instant masterpiece. Almost 40years later, and have yet to cease being amazed at its brilliance...
One of the only songs that still gets heavy rotation in my house, even after all these years. This is brilliance that never, ever gets old
Mmmmmmm
👍 Had to return for a listen too; still speaks
100%. That guitar gives me goosebumps evety time. And the way he sings. Just glides through the lyrics, sometimes with the rhythm but mostly over it.
I was flying back home from London, bought this album for my husband in an airport shop. he died 7 years ago, I miss himmore than ever. xxx
My partner also died -- we played this tape to pieces traveling from Milwaukee to Louisiana. We took my son with us, he was 9 at the time. Best days
Well, here I am again two years later, and I still think, my God, what a fabulous piece of music.
Agreed masterpeice
This album Is a masterpiece
Regardless of the country, we are all heading to graceland, thank you paul for heading us here with a cheer. We will all meet in graceland
Inshallah
Not many musicians/artists know how to tell a story like Paul Simon 😢❤❤ one of a kind..., one of the greatest artists ever
For reasons I can not explain, there's some part of me wants to see Graceland ❤
I will always have fond memories of this album. My mother had it on cassette tape and we listened to it so many times in the car. Graceland was the perfect song to bumble along in the car in the countryside, looking out at the world moving by to its beat.
Same ❤..my mom loved Paul Simon. She listened to this all of the time. She passed when I was 16 in 1992. This album reminds me of her.
Experienced the same....I'll never forget going through New Mexico in 2016 with this song playing in the car...
Gosh. Same: I still love this nearly perfect album.
Dang how could so many of us have this same experience?
Same. My mom had the cassette. I used to listen on my walkman. The entire album blows me away.
I have reason to believe this is the best rock song ever written.
‘Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow’
Brilliant
Best lyric of the song, which is saying A LOT!!
Agreed!!!!
unparalleled songwriting
Ooh yeah
My favourite ever lyric 🥰
Dieses Lied hat mich immer begleitet. Es ist definitiv eines der größten Meisterwerke der Musik Geschichte. So vielfältig. Einfach nur Klasse.
As a person who mostly listens to metal, hard rock, new wave this is possibly one of the greatest album of all time. Thanks mom for having great taste in music
For me it's my uncle Cornelius.
Metal head here too. My dad introduced me as a kid in the early 80s. Same here. Thanks dad for great taste.
It's most definitely a tip-top shelf album for any music lover.
One of the all time great albums and this is the finest track...
Graceland is one of the finest songs I've ever heard.
Love this:
'I've reason to believe, that we all will be received... in Graceland'
Paul is the intense, emotional, fragile talented man who writes these amazing percussive songs. Art, the confident showman with a beautiful voice. A match made in both heaven and hell.
Amen...
This album is in my top 5 . I'm 54 now . What an album ♥️
Curious as to what the other 4 albums are?
Beautiful, spiritual, haunting and evocative song. We all want to go to Graceland literally and figuratively. Rest peacefully in Graceland LMP.
Genialer Text. Realismus pur, wie auch von Joachim Witt " der Goldene Reiter". Text Genies. Perfekt das Leben wieder gegeben.❤❤❤❤❤❤
#PAULSIMON #GRACELAND He is a very talented musician. One of modern music most prolific songwriters 😀👍👍👍🎸🥁🪗🎹🎺🎷🎸💚💙🧡❤️💛💜💖
Melody and beat this song is utter perfection 😊
"Losing love is like a window in your heart" gets me everytime
that IS a great line
@@ardalla535 I wrote a poem around that line.
course you did.@@JeffRebornNow
Timeless
Masterpiece
It doesn’t get much better than this, a true masterpiece
Thank You, Paul 💖 This album is a national treasure ⭐️
Why would someone dislike this masterpiece?
I was wondering the same thing!!!
Probably it's racist.
@@dominikoliver7909 how come?
@@playoffmodesp2536 Mississippi is in the south Memphis, graceland so probably someone thinks it's racist. You never know nowadays. 😂
@@dominikoliver7909 yeah I think you're barking up the wrong tree. It's just that there will always be negative opinions on something. No matter what...
This was another one of the songs that was on the heavy rotation of a heartbreak I went through a couple years ago
"Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everyone sees you're blown apart
Everyone watches the wind blow"
Exactly.
I've still got the original vinyl, it's a superb example of musical healing.
You get it Nick...You have eyes that see and ears that hear. Thank you for your comment. I stumbled upon your comment listening to Paul, obviously, but your comment healed me...1% and I have a long road ahead but 1% is 1% closer to Graceland... so thank you
one word to describe this song is 'majestic'
He is saying Graceland Memphis Tennessee, taking his 9 year old son on a road trip. Failed relationships and road trips. Some peoples live stop or definitely slow down when there children are born. Add in its also his son so his heir has been established. So his longing to go to Graceland and bond with his son is truly beautiful.
This is MASTERFULLY crafted by Paul simon.
He made Simon and Garfunkel epic!
Living in the South, I come very close to tearing up when Simon sings, “I am following the river, down the highway, through the cradle of the Civil War.” It is a beautiful place, and that was a beautiful lyric, by a brilliant songwriter.
Brings tears to the eyes.....
One of the greatest male vocalists ever
She said losing love is like a window in your heart, everybody sees you're blown apart
Paul Simon does a really solid job of balancing folk music and high art at the same time, especially for someone from NY. The sound of the South African musicians he performed with on Graceland are what makes this album magical and really special to me
I can't count the times I played this CD in my car. If there is a fine for singing too loud I would be in trouble. What a masterful piece of work. Paul Simon is a master of composition and music
'losing love is like a window in your heart' Paul Simon says is special line - for him too
@1:45 "As if I'd never notice the way she brushed her hair and farted."
I hear it every time.
Sometimes when I'm falling, flying, or tumbling in turmoil, I say, whoa, so this is what she means.
She means we're bouncing into Graceland.
I've been so lucky to have parents share the music they listened to with me. Not all of it stuck with me, which I guess was to be expected. But what *did* stick - like "Graceland," both the song and the album - is a great gift. My mom was usually the one who played a variety, but my dad and stepmom introduced me to this one on a drive home from a wedding. :)
The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar
Poetry
Ever driven through the Mississippi delta? I have. A lot. For years and years. Ain’t never seen no poetry drifting around there.
Great song though.
I see you also listened to the song
@@joewright9879 yeah, but was it shining like a national guitar or not? That’s the real question
@@dleoner1 not that I ever saw.
The popping bassline and guitar melodies in this track are sublime.
The choir at 2:00 is a fantastic detail in the song that breaks your heart every time.
That's the Everly Brothers, my friend. They provided the gorgeous backing vocals on this song.
@@disdoncable Oh cool, I didn't know that!
@@disdoncable was about to say that ;)
Just went to Memphis yesterday from an Arkansas vacation, and I listened to this song when I arrived at Memphis.
Must have been a rude shock when the first thing that happened was someone cutting you off and giving you the finger to boot. Or at least that’s what I’d imagine happening to me. 😂
I was at Graceland in 1967 or so. 7-8yrs old. Drove up the driveway at Graceland with my uncle. We went right up to the front door. I was hoping Elvis was home. He was not. I was so disappointed. I'll always remember that time. Don't know what it is about that place, but I feel home there. Nobody will ever be Elvis, one of a kind, one of an era. I feel like I am transported back in time, to when I was a kid. Go there, you will know what I mean.
Love the backing harmonising vocals of Don and Phil Everly - hopefully re-united and singing together again in the hereafter. RIP Don and Phil, the world of music was changed for the better when you two came along!
You got that right, Robin!! Don and Phil were unique. They have been many good duos since them but none of them comes close to what the Everlys did.
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God I feel old I remember having this on loop in my car in my 20s I’m now 45 and it hits just as good 😊
@DeadPaul same 💜🦂💜💫
I'm older than you and still haven't bought my first car... but when I finally do, I'll be playing this all the way.
@malthus101 That sounds perfect 💜🦂💜
Why are this kind of artists in this world? Because they make even God happy and fill his body with the pure beauty.
Bakithi Khumalo on that badass fretless bass is what makes this song so great
It’s Graceland and it’s sad and sweet and beautiful
And like Jim Croce said when I go there I’ll go there freeeee
Paul Simon is a legend ladies and gentlemen
What a pleasant surprise to find this here. I haven’t listened to this in so long but from the time it first hit and for several years afterward, I use to wear. this. whole. CD. OUT! 😂 It’s going on my Spotify right now. 👍🏽🙏🏽
Paul Simon in the mid-1980s could have easily packed it in. Great run as Simon and Garfunkel. Great solo career for the decade afterward. But no, he challenged himself, and the result was the stunning Graceland album, his finest. What a treasure!
The perfect song!
makes me go back in time and think of people and good times. Love Graceland
One of my dad's favorite songs, so many memories of him and I dancing around to this... he's been gone 12 years now but I still listen o this and think of him in Graceland... I freaking love the bassline
RIP to your dad, yes the bassline is awesome, eternal
Great song, Simon is one in a million.
Wrong... One in 100 mill...
Amazing ensemble of musicians.
I was 16 when this was released,
Im finally mature enough to appreciate this song / album.
This is the greatest album ever made.
Listened to this growing up and destroyed my father's vinyln. Years later I bought both of us cd's. Still love the album in 2022.🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Ray Phiri's guitar skills were magical on Graceland may his soul rest in peace.
This is just glorious. Beautiful
Syncopation between guitar,bass,percussion.'c'est manifique!
This song is perfect
Yes, I believe we'll all be received ❤️
The Everly Brothers are singing with Paul on this one! Beautiful!
@Paul Simon ♥
One of the most beautiful and lyrical explorations of kind of deep hurt that can only be healed by grace, that is, a force outside of human will. Despite its direct invocation of the Christian notion of grace, this song never explicitly endorses a religious perspective, instead meditating on the ache and desire for forgiveness from mistakes that we never quite shed. "Graceland" takes the cliche of midlife crisis and connects it to both deep spiritual mystery and mundane details. (The line "the way she brushed her hair from her forehead" lands as a keen observation of a longtime companion, and is echoed in Simon's eventual long-term wife's song, "Lost in the Moment"). A true masterpiece of Simon's poetry and musicality.
The best Album 🙌
the national guitars are incredible !!!!!
One of the best albums ever made!
This album is right up there with Brige over Troubled Water. Brilliant
One of the best overall albums that has ever been made. The record sound quality is audiophile grade also.