if you think about it, there's one very clever line in this. it starts with a joke:
"how do you capture a photograph?"
punchline: "put it to sleep!"
and then simon follows it up by going "pretend you're having a laugh", referring to the pun he just made, and then he carries on with "i know you thought you had the last"....
that's good songwriting right there. shame the rest of the song is meaningless...
if you think about it, there's one very clever line in this. it starts with a joke: "how do you capture a photograph?" punchline: "put it to sleep!" and then simon follows it up by going "pretend you're having a laugh", referring to the pun he just made, and then he carries on with "i know you thought you had the last"....
that's good songwriting right there. shame the rest of the song is meaningless...