Lyrics God Bless the Absentee - Paul Simon
Lord,
I
am
a
working
man
And
music
is
my
trade
I'm
traveling
with
this
five
piece
band
I
play
the
ace
of
spades
I
have
a
wife
and
family
But
they
don't
see
much
of
me
God
bless
the
absentee
Lord,
I
am
a
surgeon
And
music
is
my
knife
It
cuts
away
my
sorrow
Purifies
my
life
But
if
I
could
release
my
heart
From
veins
and
arteries
I'd
say,
"God
bless
the
absentee"
I
miss
my
woman
so
I
miss
my
bed
I
miss
those
soft
places
I
used
to
lay
my
head
My
son
don't
need
me
yet
His
bones
are
soft
He
flies
a
silver
airplane
He
wears
a
golden
cross
God
bless
the
absentee
Lord,
this
country's
changed
so
fast
The
future
is
the
present
The
present's
in
the
past
The
highways
are
in
litigation
The
airports
disagree
God
bless
the
absentee
God
bless
the
absentee
God
bless
the
absentee
God
bless
the
absentee
1 Run That Body Down
2 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (with Los Lobos)
3 Tenderness
4 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
5 Hobo's Blues
6 Satin Summer Nights
7 Time Is an Ocean
8 That Was Your Mother
9 Father and Daughter
10 Adiós Hermanos
11 Sunday Afternoon
12 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
13 A Church Is Burning
14 All Because of You (Outtake)
15 April Come She Will
16 Armistice Day
17 Bernadette
18 Born At the Right Time
19 Congratulations
20 Was a Sunny Day
21 St. Judy's Comet
22 Duncan (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
23 I Know What I Know
24 Oh, Marion
25 A Most Peculiar Man
26 The Story of "Graceland" as Told By Paul Simon
27 Can't Run But
28 Everything Put Together Falls Apart
29 God Bless the Absentee
30 He Was My Brother
31 Homeless (demo)
32 I Don't Believe
33 How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
34 Jonah
35 Kathy's Song
36 Killer Wants to Go to College
37 Killer Wants to Go to College II
38 Leaves That Are Green
39 Long, Long Day
40 Night Game
41 Nobody
42 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
43 One-Trick Pony
44 Patterns
45 Proof
46 Quiet
47 Señorita with a Necklace of Tears
48 She Moves On
49 That's Me
50 That's Where I Belong (Live)
51 That's Why God Made the Movies
52 The Boy In the Bubble
53 The Rhythm of the Saints
54 Trailways Bus
55 Virgil
56 You're Kind
57 Dazzling Blue
58 Getting Ready for Christmas Day
59 Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
60 Rewrite
61 Crazy Love, Vol. II
62 The Afterlife
63 Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
64 Stranded in a Limosine
65 I'd Do It for Your Love
66 Thelma (Bonus Track)
67 Hearts And Bones - Live
68 The Sound of Silence - Live
69 Amulet
70 Papa Hobo
71 Shoplifting Clothes - Bonus Track
72 Born In Puerto Rico (Demo) [with Jose Feliciano] (Bonus Track)
73 The Coast (Work-In-Progress) (Bonus Track)
74 Can I Forgive Him
75 Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
76 I Am a Rock
77 The Sound Of Silence
78 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
79 The Side of a Hill
80 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
81 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
82 You Can Call Me Al - Demo
83 Crazy Love - Demo
84 I Am a Rock - Alternate Version
85 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
86 Mother and Child Reunion
87 The Coast
88 Further To Fly
89 The Cool, Cool River
90 Spirit Voices
91 The Obvious Child - Live
92 Paranoia Blues (Unreleased Version)
93 The Boy in the Bubble - Live
94 She Moves On (Live)
95 Born At The Right Time - Live
96 Train in the Distance - Live
97 Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Live
98 I Know What I Know (Live)
99 The Cool, Cool River - Live
100 Bridge over Troubled Water - Live
101 Proof (Live)
102 The Coast (Live)
103 Graceland - Live
104 You Can Call Me Al - Live
105 Still Crazy After All These Years - Live
106 Loves Me Like a Rock (Live)
107 Loves Me Like a Rock (Acoustic Demo)
108 Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Live
109 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
110 Homeward Bound (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
111 Late in the Evening - Live
112 American Tune (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
113 El Condor Pasa (If I Could) [with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba] (Live)
114 America (Live)
115 The Boxer (Live)
116 Duncan (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
117 Cecilia (Live)
118 The Boxer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
119 Mother and Child Reunion (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
120 The Sound of Silence (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
121 Jesus Is the Answer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
122 Bridge Over Troubled Water (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
123 Loves Me Like a Rock (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
124 The Vampires
125 America (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
126 Quality
127 Something So Right (Live)
128 My Little Town (with Art Garfunkel)
129 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
130 Have a Good Time
131 That's Where I Belong
132 Silent Eyes
133 Darling Lorraine
134 Slip Slidin' Away (Demo)
135 Old
136 You're the One
137 The Teacher
138 Look at That
139 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
140 Ace In the Hole
141 Hurricane Eye
142 Old (Live)
143 Hurricane Eye (Live)
144 How Can You Live in the Northeast?
145 Everything About It Is a Love Song
146 Outrageous
147 Allergies
148 Sure Don't Feel Like Love
149 Hearts and Bones
150 Wartime Prayers
151 When Numbers Get Serious
152 Beautiful
153 Think Too Much (b)
154 Song About the Moon
155 Another Galaxy
156 Think Too Much (A)
157 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War
158 Cars Are Cars
159 The Late Great Johnny Ace
160 Train In the Distance (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
161 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
162 Love and Hard Times
163 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
164 Love & Blessings
165 Gumboots (with Boyoyo Boys)
166 So Beautiful or so What
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