So Beautiful…
I saw Paul Simon interviewed during this year’s Glastonbury coverage, modestly stating that in his 70th year, his voice “wasn’t what it once was”. You wouldn’t know that from listening to his latest album, nor would you notice any decline in his elegant and thoughtful songwriting.
‘Questions For The Angels’ is possibly the least accessible song on the album. It meanders around a very loose verse-chorus structure, following the progress of a confused pilgrim enquiring, “Who am I in this lonely world?” before having a sudden moment of epiphany while standing in front of a billboard on which he finds Jay Z advertising designer bling.
If every human on the planet and all the buildings on it
Should disappear
Would a zebra grazing in the African Savannah
Care enough to shed one zebra tear?
…Or So What?
