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.
Simon and Garfunkel
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
life happiness smile today
We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost.
life lost measure place books
I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.I touch no one and no one touches me.I am a rock,I am an island.
music lyrics
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening.
listening people light
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.
silence sound people
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.
places people home family
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.
man rest
imagination
And you read your Emily Dickinson, And I, my Robert Frost, And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we've lost.
places
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