Simon and Garfunkel SONG Quiz – 1

Though it is about death, "Save the Life of My Child" does not mention the word death, dead or die, like the other three.

The "I" person is present in the other songs.

Cecilia is the only one who leaves the singer. In the other songs, the singer is the one who leaves or is thinking of leaving.

The other songs revolve around a person who commits suicide. "Overs" is about a failing marriage.

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the chorus of the song. The other titles are not part of the lyrics.

Whereas the narrator in the other songs are walking (or wandering/kicking down), the narrator in "Bridge Over Troubled Water" offers himself to lay down.

The old friends on the park bench isn't moving, but in the other songs someone is travelling. In "America" they take the Greyhound bus, in "The Only living boy" Tom takes a plane, and in "Keep The Customer Satisfied" he is always moving.

This is all about the weather; the foggy "Bleecker Street", the cloudy "Cloudy" and the rainy "Kathys Song", is not at all like the sunny "The Sun is Burning", though the burning sun isn't always positive.

"gazing from my window to the streets below" - (I am a Rock) "sitting on the window sill" - (Overs) "through the window of my eyes" - (Kathys Song)

Some examples: "Holy, holy is his sacrament" (Bleecker Street) "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit" (Blessed) "And the people bowed and prayed/ to the neon god they made" (Sounds of Silence)