1986: GRACELAND – PAUL SIMON

Graceland es el séptimo álbum de estudio del músico estadounidense Paul Simon, lanzado el 26 de agosto de 1986. Graceland ofrece una mezcla ecléctica de estilos musicales como el pop, a capella, isicathamiya, rock y mbaqanga. El álbum fue fuertemente influenciado por los primeros trabajos de los músicos sudafricanos Johnny Clegg y Sipho Mchunu, y la música pop de su banda Juluka. Juluka fue la primera banda de pop integrada en Sudáfrica.

Paul Simon & Willie Nelson: «Homeward bound» (live)

I’m sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket for my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And ev’ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought’s escaping,
Home where my music’s playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Ev’ry day’s an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories
And ev’ry stranger’s face I see reminds me that I long to be,
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought’s escaping,
Home where my music’s playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.

Tonight I’ll sing my songs again,
I’ll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought’s escaping,
Home where my music’s playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.

Paul Simon
Willie Nelson