DESCRIPTION:
"Hearts and Bones" is probably one of the best songs ever wrote by Paul Simon.

The album was originally intended to be called "Think Too Much", but Mo Ostin, president of Warner Bros. Records, persuaded Simon to change it to "Hearts and Bones".

The album was written and recorded following the Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park in 1981, and the world tour of 1982-1983.

Personnel :

Paul Simon - guitar, programming, vocals
Rob Mounsey - synthesizer, vocoder
The Harptones - background vocals
Bernard Edwards - bass
Nile Rodgers - guitar, programming
Airto Moreira - percussion
Marin Alsop - violin
Michael Boddicker - synthesizer
Wells Christy - synthesizer, Synclavier
Tom Coppola - synthesizer, Synclavier
Al Di Meola - guitar
Steve Ferrone - drums
Steve Gadd - drums
...

Lyrics :

One and one-half wandering Jews
Free to wander wherever they choose
Are travelling together
In the Sangre de Cristo
The Blood of Christ Mountains
Of New Mexico

On the last leg of the journey
They started a long time ago
The arc of a love affair
Rainbows in the high desert air
Mountain passes slipping into stones

Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones

Thinking back to the season before
Looking back through the cracks in the door
Two people were married
The act was outrageous
The bride was contagious
She burned like a bride

These events may have had some effect
On the man with the girl by his side
The arc of a love affair
His hands rolling down her hair
Love like lightning shaking till it moans

Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones

And whoa whoa whoa
She said why?
Why don't we drive through the night
And we'll wake up down in Mexico
Oh I Why

I don't know nothin' about nothin'
About Mexico
And tell me why
Why won't you love me
For who I am
Where I am

He said:
'Cause that's not the way the world is baby
This is how I love you, baby
This is how I love you, baby

One and one-half wandering Jews
Returned to their natural coasts
To resume old acquaintances
Step out occasionally
And speculate who had been damaged the most

Easy time will determine if these consolations
Will be their reward
The arc of a love affair
Waiting to be restored

You take two bodies and you twirl them into one
Their hearts and their bones
And they won't come undone

Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones