Paul Simon played this song last night. He said that he was at Joan Baez's house and looking through an art book. He read the caption beneath the photo that said "Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog After the War." He thought that would make a great song title but couldn't really figure out what the song would be. He decided that since Magritte was a surrealist painter, he would write a surreal song. The bands he mentions were just bands that he liked personally during that period. He thought that the overlap between people who were fans of Magritte's work and those particular bands was probably about 157 people in the world.
Paul Simon played this song last night. He said that he was at Joan Baez's house and looking through an art book. He read the caption beneath the photo that said "Rene and Georgette Magritte with their Dog After the War." He thought that would make a great song title but couldn't really figure out what the song would be. He decided that since Magritte was a surrealist painter, he would write a surreal song. The bands he mentions were just bands that he liked personally during that period. He thought that the overlap between people who were fans of Magritte's work and those particular bands was probably about 157 people in the world.