| Paul Simon – Proof Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This sounds, to me, like a couple struggling to keep their hopes, dreams and romance alive amidst the ugliness and pressures of making money. The romantic verses seem to promise good-things-to-come but we aren't sure they'll ever arrive ("Soon our fortunes will be made...", "the tools of love wear down. the mind wanders," "the sky is flecked with signs of hope"). The chorus seems to interrupt those romantic verses with references to people who couldn't care less about you. Back-stabbers (or just harried business people?) ("that ain't the deal we made") and impersonal interests (marketers or lawyers or bureaucrats or ...) ("Some people gonna call you up Tell you something that you already know") steal time and attention from the romantic and the personal. For both competing interests, though, the title points out that words are just words - no matter how good they sound - and that proof IS the bottom line for everyone. |
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