Words & music by Paul Simon 1982
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One and one-half wandering Jews
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Free to wander wherever they choose
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Are travelling together
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In the Sangre de Cristo
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The Blood of Christ Mountains
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Of New Mexico
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On the last leg of the journey
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They started a long time ago
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The arc of a love affair
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Rainbows in the high desert air
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Mountain passes slipping into stones
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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Thinking back to the season before
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Looking back through the cracks in the door
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Two people were married
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The act was outrageous
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The bride was contagious
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She burned like a bride
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These e - vents may have had some effect
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On the man with the girl by his side
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The arc of a love affair
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His hands rolling down her hair
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Love like lightning shaking till it moans
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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And whoa whoa whoa, she said, why?
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Why don't we drive through the night
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And we'll wake up down in Mexico
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Oh I, I don't know nothin' about,
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nothin' about no Mexico
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Tell me why
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Why won't you love me
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For who I am where I am?
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He said: 'Cause that's not the way the world is baby
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This is how I love you, baby
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This is how I love you, baby
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One and one-half wandering Jews
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Returned to their natural coasts
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To resume old acquaintances
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Step out occasionally
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And speculate who had been damaged the most
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Eas-y time will determine if these consolations
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Will be their reward
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The arc of a love affair
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Waiting to be restored
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You take two bodies and you twirl them into one
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Their hearts and their bones
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And they won't come undone
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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Hearts and bones
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