Kathy's Song

favorite line.. "there but for the grace of you go I" we're all like drops of rain, can you imagine findinig someone who makes your life more than just a weary path to death?

Whatever partners Kathy had after Paul must have felt pretty inadequate listening to this.

Kathy also appears in the song "America," riding the bus and hitchiking around the country with Simon.

most beautiful paul simon song i have ever heard.

This song thrusts a hand down my throat grabs my heart and pulls it out... I should have known his song for more of my life. i've known Simon & Garfunkel for some forty years but Kathy's Song for only nine months - how is that. It means more every time I listen... I have cried in more places listening to this than I care to mention and I don't care. Quite the most simply beautiful song ever written ad there are a lot of beautiful songs, and songwriting is not a competition.

So here I am again sitting in a quite ordinary hotel lobby with a drink, catching up on some personal admin and convulsing with emotion as the song plays.........

Somehow I'm just hearing this song for the first time today. What a bright spot in what has been a very crazy time in the world. I couldn't help but think of one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes as I read the lyrics:

"I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth - Unseen, inquisitive - confounds himself."

I feel like that is such a great comparison to Simon's lines:

"And as I watch the drops of rain Weave their weary paths and die I know that I am like the rain"

That last line: "There but for the grace of you go I" brings that all together so well. This is now my very favorite lyric.

A beautifully melancholy love song that sets the mood perfectly.

Overall about longing deeply for a lover that is separated from you. Sentiments of being distracted by the memories of spending time together. Intense yearning to be with her again.

He has come to the realization that everything else that once seemed so important in his life has lost all significance to him now. Feeling a loss of self or a loss of purpose while being apart. The only real or important thing is his love for Kathy.

One of the greatest love songs ever written. So relatable to so many with is beautiful poetic lyrics.

"And as I watch the drops of rain Weave their weary paths and die I know that I am like the rain" "There but for the grace of you go I”

Paul Simon apparently wrote this about a woman he met while touring England. As love songs go, it is one of the best. More specifically, it is written for someone, just like George Harrison's "Something" and John Denver's "Annie's Song." Whoever Kathy is, she can be proud that Simon regards her as the "only truth" he knows. It is possibly the most profoud lines ever sung, in my opinion.

He wrote this while in England actually he said that himself, and he just wrote in the perspective of a lost love but was actually dating Kathy at the time.

before paul & art really gained any recgnition in the US, they had been touring in europe for a while. while in london, they were both playing outside for kicks on the street during some evenings. a girl they were friendly with, named kathy would stand with them, and would frequently hold out a hat collecting money from passerbys.