This song must have been released when I was about 2 or 3 years old because my very earliest memories include a vision of being driven around the New England town where I was born on a winter day, and this song was playing on the radio. I remember how grey the overcase world was, how faded and old and tired everything seemed.
And that's what it reminds me of: shabby old New England towns that are lost in the dead and dying memories of the Industrial Revolution, and the glorious old factory buildings that are now contemned relics of a by-gone era. Simon and Garfunkel's last - and one of their best - songs.
This song must have been released when I was about 2 or 3 years old because my very earliest memories include a vision of being driven around the New England town where I was born on a winter day, and this song was playing on the radio. I remember how grey the overcase world was, how faded and old and tired everything seemed.
And that's what it reminds me of: shabby old New England towns that are lost in the dead and dying memories of the Industrial Revolution, and the glorious old factory buildings that are now contemned relics of a by-gone era. Simon and Garfunkel's last - and one of their best - songs.