“Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.”

—  Paul Simon

Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)

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American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

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