I love this song. It's so creative and filled with truth. I have found over the years that those others find odd are often the most fascinating people...very bright and filled with insight into others, although usally not when it comes to themselves. Too often they go unnoticed when their genius should receive accolades. It's the introverts who are so interesting. And I say that as a full extrovert. We can put on a good show, but sometimes that's all we are...
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We don't know that this guy was a genius had insight into others...probably not as he was so withdrawn/depressed. Yes it's fascinating...how did he get this way? A tragedy, really. Like he did on many songs of that period, Simon is making a social commentary on a society that produces unhappy ,alienated people like this.
I listened to this song too often in high school 40 years ago. As Bob Dylan wrote," I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now". Would have been better for me to have been playing ball with Biff and Jack or pursuing Susie....
@ILUVU
We don't know that this guy was a genius had insight into others...probably not as he was so withdrawn/depressed. Yes it's fascinating...how did he get this way? A tragedy, really. Like he did on many songs of that period, Simon is making a social commentary on a society that produces unhappy ,alienated people like this.
I listened to this song too often in high school 40 years ago. As Bob Dylan wrote," I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now". Would have been better for me to have been playing ball with Biff and Jack or pursuing Susie.
I\'d say the guy was perhaps very shy, or maybe autistic. Either way, he struggles to interact with people in the way they expect and so they find him peculiar, unfriendly and don\'t engage with him for long. I wouldn\'t say society had made him that way, he was just born like that, but being away from his family and where he was brought up can\'t have helped. Though maybe even they struggled to relate to him. It is very sad.
I\'d say the guy was perhaps very shy, or maybe autistic. Either way, he struggles to interact with people in the way they expect and so they find him peculiar, unfriendly and don\'t engage with him for long. I wouldn\'t say society had made him that way, he was just born like that, but being away from his family and where he was brought up can\'t have helped. Though maybe even they struggled to relate to him. It is very sad.
I love this song. It's so creative and filled with truth. I have found over the years that those others find odd are often the most fascinating people...very bright and filled with insight into others, although usally not when it comes to themselves. Too often they go unnoticed when their genius should receive accolades. It's the introverts who are so interesting. And I say that as a full extrovert. We can put on a good show, but sometimes that's all we are...
@ILUVU We don't know that this guy was a genius had insight into others...probably not as he was so withdrawn/depressed. Yes it's fascinating...how did he get this way? A tragedy, really. Like he did on many songs of that period, Simon is making a social commentary on a society that produces unhappy ,alienated people like this. I listened to this song too often in high school 40 years ago. As Bob Dylan wrote," I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now". Would have been better for me to have been playing ball with Biff and Jack or pursuing Susie....
@ILUVU We don't know that this guy was a genius had insight into others...probably not as he was so withdrawn/depressed. Yes it's fascinating...how did he get this way? A tragedy, really. Like he did on many songs of that period, Simon is making a social commentary on a society that produces unhappy ,alienated people like this. I listened to this song too often in high school 40 years ago. As Bob Dylan wrote," I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now". Would have been better for me to have been playing ball with Biff and Jack or pursuing Susie.
I\'d say the guy was perhaps very shy, or maybe autistic. Either way, he struggles to interact with people in the way they expect and so they find him peculiar, unfriendly and don\'t engage with him for long. I wouldn\'t say society had made him that way, he was just born like that, but being away from his family and where he was brought up can\'t have helped. Though maybe even they struggled to relate to him. It is very sad.
I\'d say the guy was perhaps very shy, or maybe autistic. Either way, he struggles to interact with people in the way they expect and so they find him peculiar, unfriendly and don\'t engage with him for long. I wouldn\'t say society had made him that way, he was just born like that, but being away from his family and where he was brought up can\'t have helped. Though maybe even they struggled to relate to him. It is very sad.