This is to finish some unfinished business, specifically the coda to "Everything About It ...".
It makes a modicum of sense. Our songpoet indulged himself on this one. If you're doing your own cracking, ask yourself how the darkness can vibrate. Otherwise, dive in.
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The darkness vibrates. Here we're viewing Earth from outerspace (which we know, because the earth is blue). In the darkness of outer space, nothing vibrates because there is nothing. Zip, zilch. Affirmatively, darkness cannot vibrate.
And about our planet, it is equally untrue that everything about it is a love song. Some people build on the banks of the river. Maybe we don't mean to mess things up, but mess things up we do. Some things are outrageous. Some don't feel like love. We've got non-believers shivering and viruses and brokerage jokes and funerals.
To name just a few. The only place where darkness vibrates and everything about earth is a love song is in someone's imagination. This I figured out. Then I stumbled on the truth.
In this case, it's Paul Simon's imagination. The following is from an interview with the Newark Star-Ledget's Jay Lustig, reported in the "Lasers in the Jungle Blog" at paulsimon.org:
"You look back at the whole thing from some distant place," [Simon] says, "and the Earth looks so beautiful and blue. Then you say, 'Well, it's all about love.' Love that worked out, love that didn't work out, all the manifestations of love, love that turns to hate and all that...."
The coda is the songpoet, walking along the riverbank of his imagination. Note that the next words after the final "Everything about it is a love song." are "It's outrageous ..." I think we've got Paul Simon, dreamer, being overtaken by Paul Simon, realist.
Why are all the "water" words highlighted in the text? Every one ties, somehow, to water - "river," "clouds," "pond," "tear drop," "storm," "mist," and forth, throughout the album. Does it reference to flow of the music from track to track?
John, study the album cover.
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