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Zu dem Thema ist Paul Simon fast eine Fundgrube, ZB American Tune
Aus einer Rolling_Stone Album Besprechung 2003:
„American Tune,“ which opens side two is the album’s pivotal moment. A flowing ballad with the chordal structure of an American hymn-tune, its magnificent lyrics give us Simon’s definitive reflection on the American Dream. Writing from a state of exhaustion in England …, Simon sees the country as a nation of „battered“ souls, but still „home,“ and the American Dream either „shattered“ or „driven to its knees.“ In an apocalyptic reverie, he equates his own death with the death of America and sees „the Statue of Liberty sailin‘ away to sea.“ The song, which has instrumental touches that deliberately recall Simon and Garfunkel’s „America,“ is the single greatest thing Simon has yet written, a classic by any standard….“[/QUOTE
Vielleicht interessant, dass die „chordal structure of an American hymn- tune“ von einem deutschen Kirchenlied stammt: „O Haupt voll Blut, voll Wunden“, Text Paul Gerhardt, 1656, Musik Hanns Hassler, 1601. Was im Ergebnis zu dieser wunderschönen Paul Simon-Ballade führt.
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His profession's his religion, his sin is his lifelessness Contre la guerre