Simon and Garfunkel are an American popular music duo comprising Paul Simon and Arthur "Art" Garfunkel. They are well known for their close harmonies and sometimes unstable relationship. Simon and Garfunkel were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s, and are best known for their songs "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water". They have received several Grammys and are inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2007). They have reunited on several occasions since their 1970 break-up, most famously for 1981's The Concert in Central Park, which attracted 500,000 people.

All lyrics by Paul Simon, except as noted.

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• But all my words come back to me
  In shades of mediocrity
  • "Homeward Bound", Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)

• And you read your Emily Dickinson,
  And I, my Robert Frost,
  And we note our place with bookmarkers
  That measure what we've lost.
  • "The Dangling Conversation", Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme (1966)

• Laugh about it, shout about it,
  When you've got to choose,
  Every way you look at it, you lose.
  • "Mrs. Robinson", Bookends (1968)

• And in the naked light I saw
  Ten thousand people, maybe more.
  People talking without speaking,
  People hearing without listening.
  • "The Sound of Silence", Sounds of Silence (1966)

• And the people bowed and prayed
  To the neon God they made.
  And the sign flashed out its warning,
  In the words that it was forming.
  And the signs said, the words of the prophets
  Are written on the subway walls
  And tenement halls.
  And whisperd in the sounds of silence.
  • "The Sound of Silence", Sounds of Silence (1966)

• I have squandered my resistance
  For a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises
  All lies and jest
  Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
  • "The Boxer", Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

• When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
  In the company of strangers
  In the quiet of the railway station, runnin' scared
  Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters, where the ragged people go
  Looking for the places only they would know.
  • "The Boxer", Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

• And after it rains
  There's a rainbow
  And all of the colors are black
  Its not that the colors aren't there
  It's just imagination they lack.
  • "My Little Town", Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)