Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2011
- Official video for "The Boy In The Bubble" by Paul Simon
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Chorus:
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry 
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"And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires..."
Words of the prophets.
Rest in peace to Forere Motloheloa of the Sesotho Traditional band Tau Ea Matšekha. He was the accordionist on this song. He passed away on 9 February 2021 from a short illness, at the age of 74. Rest in peace. 🙏🏿
Robala ka khotso Ntate 🇱🇸
Great track he laid down here.
This is jim blashfield's greatest work. Jim you are a genius. You gave me 37 years of happiness with this masterpiece paul simon the boy in the bubble. For that im ever indebted to you.
May be more relevant today than the day it was written.
My son was born in February '86. Graceland was released on 25th August '86. My son didn't sleep and just cried for 18 months except when I played "The baby in the bubble" and danced around the room with him in my arms. All through the night!!! God damn!
Thank you Paul!
The baby in the bubble
The baby in the bubble
I also had a baby with insomnia, in 1987 tho.
My 2024 baby absolutely loves this song too!
You can’t underestimate the musicianship of the Africans on this album.
...Think you might have meant ''overestimate''? ;)
'Graceland' is one of my Top 5 Greatest Albums of all time. Every track is a gem.
And it so well recorded too. Definitely top 10 for me.
You are so right about that.
100%
Spot on
Completely agree! If I’m stuck on and island it’s one of the ones I’m bringing!
My mother loved this album and we listened to it so much when I was a little girl. She is gone now and when I hear Paul say "don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry" I imagine it's her speaking to me. Life is bewildering.
+Emily C "Death is but a momentary parting from those we love." W. B. Yeats
+Emily C I think She is Emily and she knows good music too,and is telling you something here My best wishes to you Emily.
Thank you for your kind words.
+Emily C I know it's a cliche Emily but I understand what you have gone through and how much a thing as simple as a song can mean so much.With me it was Kathleen Ferrier singing Blow the Winds Southerly.
E C This whole album beginning to end reminds me of my mom. An entire summer driving in a station wagon listening to it over and over again. Such strong, vivid memories.
One of the greatest lyrical songs ever
I like the groove though ;)
You need to get out more
Who does?
For real! The whole album's an absolute gem!
You can't be serious?? Its not a song you listen to lyrics to, its the African beat. Have you seen him sing it live 😂😂 and people wonder why youth stopped listening to guitar music. Just look at paul simon with his wig and blazer dancing trying to sing and you get your answer!!! Terrible terrible!!!!!
Just after Call Me Al came out as a single I ended up going home with a girl from a club one night in Aberdeen. She lived in a tenement flat somewhere in Rosemount if memory serves me right. Anyway, in the morning she had to get up for work, so she told me to get up when I wanted and make myself a coffee of whatever - just making sure the door was locked when I left. Anyway, eventually I got up, made a coffee and some toast and with nothing to do ( I was working offshore), started looking through the albums in the living room for something to put on. I found Graceland. I knew Call Me Al from the radio, but I'd never heard the rest of it and when I did, it just blew me away. I stayed there the whole morning putting it on again and again. Most songs it's hard to recall exactly where and when you first heard them, but this is one album that stands out like a beacon - and this song in particular. It's like a photo-shot of a point in time somewhere in my 20s. Before and after - not a related memory at all. There's just a room in a strange apartment and me listening to Graceland over and over.
That would make a brilliant scene in a film!
Miracle and wonder right there bro
I, particularly, love "Call Me Al", but I'm a big fan of his music both with Garfunkel and in his solo career. He is a genius songwriter.
I love this mini-story. It took me away immediately!
STD-mania
Paul Simon is definitely one of the godfathers of Rock and Roll. His DNA shows up in uncountable bands.
Over 25 years ago now I had the privilege (luck, really) to have a teeny, tiny part in making of this video, as a worker for a company assisting Jim Blashfield and his visionary team that made this. I can still remember seeing the still photos to this day and wondering what the final video would be like.
Wow!! I'm really intrigued by people and history (even if it's not really old), stories such as these always fascinate me!
So, did you like have to cut out photos and stack them on top of each other? Then, photograph those stacks?
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I know Jim and I had absolutely no part in this video! 🙃
@@philippesauvie639 Touché Philippe!
The sound of Krishna Das playing the harmonium reminded me of this song today.
This song, and the whole Graceland album was my mother’s favorite. She played this album so much that I hated it. It took age and maturity to see that Graceland is a masterpiece. I miss my mom
I do think it's an album that you appreciate the older you get. I'm in my late 40s now, and I treasure Graceland, but didn't respond the same way as a teen.
Your mum was right. You were wrong
I didn’t like it the first time I heard it at maybe 12 or 13 (I certainly didn’t think it was nearly as good as his earlier work with Garfunkel). As the years went on, I loved it more and more. It is my favorite piece of music now and in my opinion, the single finest piece of American songwriting.
I loved it when I was in high school in the 80s. I love it more in 2022.
@@jenniferrobinson1792 I loved it when I was in high school in the 90s and still do today
I once went to Sub-Saharan Africa to help with some fiber optic cable installation. The coincidence of my circumstances was not lost on me.
:)
Britain has Paul McCartney;
We (America) have Paul Simon.
Paul Simon - One of the finest writers of all time. A phenomenal artist and visionary.
webwhisper well said!
I am hoping that he is busily penning something about these strange dark times....
He just seems to be able to capture the Zeitgeist !
@@m.maclellan7147 He did...... this song. Listen to the lyric.
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@@thewomble1509 This. I mean, it’s bordering on prophetic. Or maybe we humans really are just _that_ predictable.
You ever notice that in the lines: "Medicine is magical and magical is art
/Think of the Boy in the Bubble and the baby with the baboon heart" that the consonance of the repeating double B mimics a heartbeat? I still get chills when I hear that line.
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Paul Simon had a way of capturing broad and vivid images of the human condition in the short moments of a brilliant song.
The references are dated, yet this song feels more relevant now than ever. The art that intensifies over time rather than diminishes is rare and great.
"Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts." I love that lyric.
One of the great artists of our time
I live in Scotland and I am still listening to this wonderful music that lifts my spirits.❤
This song was way way waaaaaay ahead of it's time, brilliant.
꧁꧂ Blakjak ꧁꧂ true
This is a long time ago
It's a good song but how the heck is it ahead of it's time?
Seemed very of the time in the late 1980s. Handheld cell phones had just arrived and the computer boom was beginning. Life was becoming more... well, more modern I suppose. It is brilliant. He says 'don't cry', but now I cry for my old days back then!
It's about its time though isn't it?
Paul Simon is a national treasure.
...& international too xxx
international aswell, Shalom from Israel! ♥
Hello from Canada!
Will Hunter. WORLD Treasure!!
William Hunter He is a GLOBAL treasure
"These are the days of lasers in the jungle" I don't think I've heard such a short line that says so much
Yes, that lyric, along with the first verse have always stuck with me.
"These are the days of lasers in the jungle, lasers in the jungle somewhere."
That verse really bites into you
Graceland. One of; if not the, greatest albums ever produced. There is no filler, just straight up megahits, one after another. Decades later it still stands tall as a masterpiece.
The sweetest bass line ever.
Paul got better with age. I loved his soft folk ballads, back when I had hair on my head, instead of in my ears and nose, but, Graceland was a major work of art by an accomplished genius. This particular song has been overshadowed by events, having proved eerily prophetic, but it resonates with the soul, communicates the delicious sense of wide eyed wonder that an adult feels when he embarks upon a new voyage of discovery. 11 thumbs up.
The greatest LP ever, in the history of music, totally brilliant
Great opening track off what I believe to be one of the top ten best albums of all time. Just my not so humble opinion
I first heard this album in 1986 on the very first Walkman I ever heard. It blew me away. I knew every single song word by word... I still do... Even at 44
here is a question, do you know what you know and have you said what you said?
Man, was that dude prescient.
What a work of art it is.
not a huge Simon fan but I recognize he was a brilliant songwriter. This song is bloody brilliant.
across the world, the sound of 1986 was the sound of south africa.
The juxtaposition of “the way the camera follows us in slow-mo, the way we look to us all” with “the way we look to a distant constellation that’s dying in a corner of the sky” has always invoked this somewhat indescribable emotion, a medley of pity and fondness and elation, with a healthy dose of resignation.
Among the best lyrics ever written.
Graceland was one of the most important albums of the 1980s, both artistically and politically. Though some said that he was making money off the plight of black S Africa, others knew that it bred more awareness to the suffering than anything else in the music world.
This is such a great song that it took me years to realise that it begins with a terrorist attack. Love the line "These are the days of miracle and wonder".
No words. I always saw this song as a piece of some kind of meta-art, a song that sang about its own existence, about its own dying age and frightening future, about long-distance-calls and lasers in the jungle, about constellations dying in space. To me, Paul Simon was way ahead of his time back then. This is one of the deepest songs in popular music ever.
Amen
All that to *such* a nasty groove!
“We didn’t start the Fire: Billy Joel another, similar.
No most of the lyrics were about news in the early 80s the boy in the bubble with a baboon heart the bomb in the baby carriage wired to the radio etc.
@@annalisavajda252 I know!!! 😀 The point of my comment was to emphasize the poeticism of the song and the growing fear of technology during the cold war.
This song hasn't aged one bit and neither has this video. "The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in a corner of the sky..." is how we should all think of ourselves.
please eleborate wat u mean 😊
Insignificant in comparison.
the song hasn't aged but the video definitely has.
Nope, the video has a certain funky charm and always will. It is sufficiently "low tech" enough to stand the test of time. I cringe when I look at a LOT of videos from the "MTV 80s". Not this one.
Like "You Can Call Me Al," or example?
What a well-written song. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
One of my favourites off the Graceland album. I always liked its quirkiness.
Medicine and magical
Magic is art
Yeah this record goes hard
At the time I or many other people never realised how talented and how good Paul Simons music is.
Paul Simon is not my normal cup of tea, but this album is amazing. It absolutely blows me away. One of my Top 10 albums ever.
+Buster Hymen Which albums/songs of his are not your "cup of tea"?
+godriczimmerman It's not any particular album of his, it's him in general. I'm more of a alt and/or new wave fan. I heard this first at a friend's house, and from the first note of the first song I heard, I was hooked on Graceland.
The album after this one is also fantastic, Rhythm of the Saints. It has always been overlooked.
It one of those things.
Paul Simon himself is decent; some hits and some misses, but THIS album is-to borrow a chess term-“immortal.”
This is no less than a manifesto of these times, along with "Silent Running," which debuted the same year. 1984 was a preordained gateway to the global nightmare that is coming to a head as we speak.
Thankyou Paul Simon for bringing so much joy to the world with this album. It really is a masterpiece.
I remember the anticipation of the Graceland album release in 1986. The album lived up to ALL expectations. A marvellous album which needs to be in everyone's collection
Back when I was about 6, my grandfather showed me this song. He had this album on cd, and every time I road in his car, he played this album, and this track. I loved it for years. Last time I herd it, I was about 10. Now I’m coming back to it for the first time in 5 years, and wow. The nostalgia is insane. And I’m not even that old! What an incredible song.
Paul Simon's music still holds up to this day! My music producer friend introduced me to the Graceland album when we were 16 and I've been hooked ever since, Such good memories hanging out in his basement blasting Paul Simon. I wanna throw my friend some love as we've been through a lot together try searching Lonely Gimmick - Beaches, it's his latest single and it gives me Paul Simon vibes, I'm honestly so impressed with it, its one of those songs that makes you happy when you listen to it
It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry
It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert
And it curled into the circle of birth
And the dead sand
Falling on the children
The mothers and the fathers
And the automatic earth
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry
It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry
Much love for COMPLETE lyrics! Thanks!
Thank you for the words to this song "boy in the bubble "it's now reflecting on what's going on in Ukraine .let's bring them hope and peace xx👍
Thank you!
Thanx
"...every generation throws a hero up the pop charts..."
Brilliant!
and every generation throws up a virus from which we need to self-isolate
@@dj_grim lol
Probably the best song of one of the best albums ever made.
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Does anyone else feel a tinge of sadness when listening to this song?
More than a tinge.
MOST OF PAUL SIMONS SONGS GET ME LIKE THAT
Yes. This was my mom’s favorite album, and she’s gone now.
He hits so many nails on the head, reminding us of just how damaged our world is...
This was just a masterpiece album, and that's saying a lot for Paul Simon.
I was lucky enough to write the advertisement for this album in South Africa. This song always reminds me of on of my African team who used to play his mouth organ and bounce around to the same rhythm, and was killed in an underground explosion with 28 others. I missed being there because a colleague swapped jobs with me that day.
For some reason this song always makes me emotional.
MelissaWithLove Me too, especially in combination with the video.
I remember listening to this tape as a kid over and over with my dad. All of Graceland brings back so much nostalgia, I had no idea how amazing this music was at the time.
For me personally, the whole Graceland album reminds me of my mom and wet hot Florida days. Makes me emotional also.
One of the greatest songwriters ever I think.
Without a doubt one of the greatest albums ever.
I love how Paul Simon hid one of the best protests of modern pop culture in a song that he knew would hit the pop charts. Bold.
How is this not the top search result?
I'd look up at the clouds and let my mind wander with my Walkman playing this album. Amazing album, some of his best work.
Oh man! The SOUNDS of this recording...the song, the arrangement, the instrumentation, the mix.......one of the greatest pop recordings I've ever heard. That stuttering, backward sounding accordion just kills me every time I hear it. Oh, that bass! The sound of the drums. Just brilliant.
This song is one of the great songs. It is a historical maker.
Graceland is in my top five albums of all time. I listen to it regularly😊
I love reading all the comments in this thread about memories of this song with loved ones, some of whom may no longer be here. Music is amazing.
I was introduced to this video by a drama teacher after that I went looking for everything Paul Simon ever did and have been addicted to his music ever since. 30 years well spent listening to great music.
Paul Simon managed such interesting and complicated thoughts in such literate lyrics.
The song and video is still phenomenal. Timeless.
I wish the volume level was louder,though. For some reason they've made it very quiet here. I had to turn my speakers right up to do some kind of justice,and even then a Spinal Tap level 11 wouldn't have gone amiss.
That accordion sounds so awesome. It's an amazing instrument when used correctly.
The accordion is playing in Sotho style as played by traditional musicians in Lesotho. Search for Tau Ea Matsekha - Thokolosi, I'm sure you'll love it.
My mother can play the Accordion and she would agree. It always enrages her how the instrument gets such disrespect.
In the Classic albums episode about "Graceland" Paul reveals that to make the accordion sound deeper, they actually overdubbed it using a synthesizer but it's done so discreetly that you wouldn't even notice it.
Classical Music11 Not to mention that bassline.
not to mention... the mp3 version (or the cassette, or vinyl) sounds so much better than this video... RUclips is probably the worst thing to happen to sound quality in sixty years.
go buy a downloadable copy, or a physical copy, see for yourself. Man... I love this song, but this video... ick.
Listening to this over 30 years after it's release, and it's sad how little has changed in the world.
The whole Graceland album is great, really. The lyrics for this piece could stand alone as poetry; Simon's use of alliteration especially in the last stanza is nothing short of genius.
my god thanks for decent well crafted music. Most modern stuff is crap
Only 1.8 million views??!!!IMO this is his best song,sounds like nothing else you've ever heard & it's bloody fantastic!!!Paul Simon is most definitely a genius & a national treasure
Still gives me chills when I hear it.., thank you Paul.
I wish it they'd put it on here a bit louder,though. I went from the living room into the kitchen to collect a cup of tea and,with the door to the garden open and the patter of rain outside,I had to strain a bit to hear it properly!
one of paul simons best
We have to play this music to our children, have it in the background while we do everyday stuff, I listened to the radio when I was a kid and fell in love with Presley, nat king cole, paul Simon is just as influential, he affected me in ways I’m still processing, will always love this
Phil, thanks to you and anyone else who had a hand in making this video. 25 years later, it still gives me chills. Magnificent work.
I know this is not Christmas songs but to me it is. my mother would put this when we did the Christmas tree because my brother and I wanted to listen to music while doing it but she didn't have any Christmas songs. so we would listen to this instead. now she is gone but I still listen to this when I put up my Christmas decorations in memory of her and the good times we spent listening to those songs
very emotional...
Great 'Mom' memories, too. She and I saw him a few times, but the Wiltern show was our favorite because he had the full percussion set with him, like we hear on 'You Can Call Me Al'. She was crazy about 'Graceland', and we always played it to get a great start on a camping trip.
so beautiful . i totally understand . this reminds me of my dad. i can still see him playing air guitar or drums
This song always seemed like a Christmas song to me
The absolute pinnacle of a songwriters journey where everything comes to together magically but never to be captured ever again all at this level...
Paul simon had the diamond's on the souls of his shoes in the creation of this timeless piece of beautiful Art
"Staccato signals and constant information, a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires..."
This song describes the culture now and predicts it with poetical brilliance and stunning accuracy. Simon is a genius of the first order.
NortonsNestMonthly - I totally see where you’re coming from, but it’s widely believed The Boy in the Bubble is about South Africa during the revolution. The “staccato signals and constant information” refers to the revolutionaries being fired upon while they were in hiding. The “loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires” refers to the wealthy South African whites who supported the discriminatory practices said revolutionaries were fighting against.
Cool connection, though.
@@SomeFreakingCactus Hmm... So the words used by Paul Simon in this song could sometimes be the way to make a shocking event seems like it was not that bad (the kind of strategical speech George Orwell tried to make us keep an eye on when listening to politicians). Off course, it would be not to show how he wants to say it but how politicians wants to cover up the real terms, the real context. It would make sense, don't you think?
Paul Simon is one of the great songwriters of all times. I think he can be compared to Bob Dylan who was a hero of the generation before me. Being born in 1972 the Graceland album had a big impact on me as a young man. I was fortunate enough to see him with Garfunkel in 2004 (with my stepdad, an experience I will cherish the rest of my life) and during the rhythm of the saints tour. Listening to the music of Paul Simon makes me feel like the teenager that I was in the 80's (even though it's been while.......)
This song is still relevant in 2016! A great artist!
I woke up this morning and I HAD to listen to this great American troubadour. He is, in his own way, the GOAT, an astounding lyricist as well as a fine composer. Now don't get me wrong; Paul isn't Jerry and the Dead GOAT. But the man has left his mark. This is a great album; you get joy, you get sorrow, you get shock and you get awe. If not Simon himself, this album belongs on the list of GOAT records.
DON'T CRY BABY DON'T CRY ❤❤❤
That bass is funky. Sounds wonderful with just Paul's vocals, background choir. Nice
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Its a fretless bass.
“I believe these are the days of lasers in the jungle, lasers in the jungle somewhere - staccato signals of constant information, a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires”.
This song is more prophetic than we realize. How bad is he describing the 2010s, way back in 1987?
I think sort of like the Beatles Paul Simon understood how crappy the world can be sometimes but taken as a whole Simon's work captures a joy and optimism about humanity. Because after that he reaffirms 'these are the days of miracle and wonders' and I don't think that claim is meant to be completely ironic.
The song actually isn't affirming a positive future, I think the singer is pointing out that it's ridiculous to have violence and destruction in an age where there are miracles and wonders. How can the same civilization that is battling disease, and preserving life with baboon hearts and bubble children, be the same one that is so bent on annihilating humanity.
Way ahead of it's time, describes the last 20 years but it was made 34 years ago.
@@fleurelise997 The duality of mankind is a bitch.
@@zachhardy6469 I also don't think it's an affirmation. I think it's sarcastic, "these are the days of miracle and wonders... don't cry, baby, don't cry." He's repeating what modern life is marketed as, and consoling someone, maybe the average listener, who doesn't identify with that image at all, who finds modern life to be rife with hardships, moral dilemmas, and all manners of abuse.
This is my favorite song on the album.
I grew up with the album, My mom spent many years in Africa and carried her love of the the cultures with her. I'd long forgotten about this album and picked it up by chance a few months ago when the remaster came out and the moment I put it on it brought back so many fond memories.
genius genius genius
My parents had this album and once I found it in their record collection I listened to it over and over again on the headphones in their sitting room and learnt all the words. It was one of the first albums that got me into music. Beautiful track and beautiful album. :-)
He's still alive and touring, man. Graceland Reunion Tour 2012!!!!!!!!!!!
The way we look at a distant constellation that's dying in the corner of the sky, these are the days of miracle and wonder, don't cry baby don't cry
"A distant constellation dying in the corner of the sky"
Classic! I love that line.
We are nothing more that a fragment of a speck of dust lying on the floor below the cathedral of stars above or below us. IMO.
Though these are not the "days of miracles and wonder", nor will they ever be, I still like this song.
My high school science teacher used to play this song all the time in class,Good times.
"the way we look to us all"❤
Other than a few big hits from Graceland on the radio, it wasn't until "Rythm of The Saints" hit Tower Records in the Village and buying it (possibly my favorite P.S. album) that I was led back to fully knowing, understanding and embracing "Graceland"... both are impeccable. The Art will long outlive the reductive controversy.
I have always loved fretless bass in this song
Wow! Listen to that accordion being played by Tau Ea Matsekha.
Ches' habashwe!