"3. "Whose gonna love you when your looks are gone?" God? Nope, don't count on it. This is Simon word play at its best. He tells us that "God will like he waters the flowers on your window sill". When was the last time it rained indoors? A window sill is on the inside of the house. Therefore, God doesn't water those flowers, you have to."
This is a logical fallacy in and of itself. Paul Simon does not use cryptic wordplay to preach a message of destitution and dismay, but rather a message of hope. And me, I'm simply an ordinary sinner being changed by God's grace, day by day.
If you want to get entirely logical about it, notice that searching for the phrase "flowers on a windowsill" on Google Image Search returns equal numbers of indoor and outdoor flowers (before they had glass, flowers on a windowsill would have been simultaneously indoors and outdoors. He is saying that God will love you no matter what, regardless of looks. You can't possibly deduce that he is saying God -won't- love you when your looks are gone because he says windowsill, a word that has multiple meanings.
"3. "Whose gonna love you when your looks are gone?" God? Nope, don't count on it. This is Simon word play at its best. He tells us that "God will like he waters the flowers on your window sill". When was the last time it rained indoors? A window sill is on the inside of the house. Therefore, God doesn't water those flowers, you have to."
This is a logical fallacy in and of itself. Paul Simon does not use cryptic wordplay to preach a message of destitution and dismay, but rather a message of hope. And me, I'm simply an ordinary sinner being changed by God's grace, day by day.
If you want to get entirely logical about it, notice that searching for the phrase "flowers on a windowsill" on Google Image Search returns equal numbers of indoor and outdoor flowers (before they had glass, flowers on a windowsill would have been simultaneously indoors and outdoors. He is saying that God will love you no matter what, regardless of looks. You can't possibly deduce that he is saying God -won't- love you when your looks are gone because he says windowsill, a word that has multiple meanings.