2075 – Paul Simon – Late in the evening (1980)

 

Escrita por Paul Simon, foi gravada entre 1979 e 1980 e lançada no compacto que tinha How the hearts approches what it yearns como Lado B, em julho de 1980. Sairia também no disco One trick Pony, o quinto disco solo de Paul Simon. Foi produzida por Paul Simon e Phil Ramone. Chegou ao número 6 do Billboard Hot 100, número 58 no Reino Unido, número 2 no Canadá, número 9 na Holanda, número 15 na Bélgica, número 19 na Nova Zelandia e número 34 na Austrália. A bateria tocada por Steve Gadd foi tocada com duas baquetas em cada mão. E tocou em um estilo de New York City misturado com cubano e de Moçambique. Pau Simon cantou. Steve Gadd tocou bateria. Tony Levin tocou baixo. Eric Gale tocou guitarra. Hugh McCracken tocou violão. Ralph MacDonald tocou sino e temple blocks.

A letra:

First thing I remember
I was lying in my bed
I couldn't have been no more than one or two
And I remember there was a radio
Coming from the room next door
And my mother laughed
The way some ladies do
When it's late in the evening
And the music's seeping through

The next thing I remember
I am walking down the street
I'm feeling all right
I'm with my boys, I'm with my troops, yeah
And down along the avenue
Some guys were shooting pool
And I heard the sound of a cappella groups, yeah
Singing late in the evening
And all the girls out on the stoops, yeah

Then I learned to play some lead guitar
I was underage in this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke myself a "J"
And when I come back to the room
Everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play
And it was late in the evening
And I blew that room away

First thing I remember
When you came into my life
I said I'm gonna get that girl no matter what I do
Well, I guess I've been in love before
And once or twice I been on the floor
But I never loved no one the way that I love you
And it was late in the evening
And all the music seeping through

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