Boy in the Bubble
Paul Simon

It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry

It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert
And it curled into the circle of birth
And the dead sand
Falling on the children
The mothers and the fathers
And the automatic earth
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry

It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart

And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry


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Lyrics by Paul Simon

  10 Years (Oprah Winfrey Show 10 Year Anniversary T...   50 Ways To Leave Your Lover   7 O'Clock News / Silent Night   7 O'Clock News / Silent Night   A Church Is Burning   A Hazy Shade Of Winter   A Heart In New York   A Most Peculiar Man   A Most Peculiar Man [Take #4]   A Poem On The Underground   A Poem On The Underground Wall   A Simple Desultory Philippic   A simple desultory philippic (or how I was Lyndon ...   A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert ...   Ace In The Hole   Adios Hermanos   All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints   All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints (...   All Because Of You (Outtake)   Allergies   America   American Tune   American Tune (Unfinished Demo)   American Tune [Unfinished Demo][#][*]   American Tune [Unfinished Demo][#][*]   Amulet   Angel Clare   Another Galaxy   April Come She Will   April Come She Will [Take #2]   April Comes She Will   Armistice Day   At The Zoo   Baby Driver   Barbriallen   Beautiful   Benedicts   Bernadette   Bleecker Street   Blessed   Blues Run The Game   Bookend   Born At The Right Time   Born At The Right Time (Acoustic Demo)   Born at the Right Time [Original Acoustic Demo][#]...   Born at the Right Time [Original Acoustic Demo][#]...   Born In Puerto Rico   Bridge Over Troubled Water   Bridge Over Troubled Waters   Bright Eyes   Bye Bye Love   Call Me Al   Can I Forgive Him   Can I Forgive Him [Original Demo]   Can I Forgive Him [Original Demo][#][*]   Can't Run But   Can't Run But   Cars Are Cars   Cecilia   Citizen Of The Planet   Cloudy   Comfort And Joy   Congratulations   Cool Papa Bell   Crazy Love (Demo)   Crazy Love, Vol II   Crazy Love, Vol. 2   Crazy Love, Vol. II   Crazy Love, Vol2   Dangling Conversation   Darlin' Lorraine   Darling Lorraine   Dazzling Blue   Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes   Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes (alternate Vers...   Duncan   Duncan (Demo - San Francisco 2/71)   El Condor Pasa   El Condor Pasa (If I Could)   Everything About It Is A Love Song   Everything About It Is A Love Song   Everything Put Together Falls Apart   Fakin' It   Fakin\' It   Fakin' It   Fast Car   Fast Car   Fast Car [Album Version]   Father & Daughter   Father And Daughter   Feuilles-O   Fifty Ninth Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)   Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall   For Emily   Further To Fly   Getting Ready For Christmas Day   Getting Ready for Christmas Day [Music Video]   Go Tell It On The Mountain   God Bless The Absentee   Gone At Last   Gone At Last (Original Demo)   Gone at Last [Original Demo][#][*]   Graceland   Gumboots   Have A Good Time   He Was My Brother   He Was My Brother [Take #2]   Hearts & Bones   Hearts and Bones   Hey, Schoolgirl   Hey, Schoolgirl / Black Slacks   Hobo's Blues   Homeless   Homeless (Demo)   Homeward Bound   Horace and Pete   How Can You Live In the Northeast   How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns   Hurricane Eye   Hurricane Eye (Live Version)   Hurricane Eye (Live)   I Am A Rock   I Am a Rock [Take #6][*][Version]   I Am a Rock [Take #7]   I Do It For Your Love   I Don't Believe   I Don't Believe   I Know What I Know   In The Sea   Insomniac s Lullaby   Jonah   Kathy's Song   Kathy's Song   Keep The Customer Satisfied   Killer Wants To Go To College   Killer Wants To Go To College II   Kodachrome   Kodachrome [#][*]   Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream   Late In The Evening   Late in the Evening [From One Trick Pony]   Late in the Evening [From One-trick Pony]   Learn How to Fall   Leaves That Are Green   Let Me Live In Your City   Let Me Live In Your City (Work In Progress) (Previ...   Long, Long Day   Look At That   Love   Love & Blessings   Love & Hard Times   Love & Blessings   Love and Blessings   Love And Hard Times   Love Is Eternal Sacred Light   Love Me Like a Rock   Loves Me Like A Rock   Loves Me Like A Rock (acoustic Demo)   Loves Me Like a Rock [Acoustic Demo][#][*]   Loves Me Like a Rock [Acoustic Demo][#][*]   Mabellene   Maybe I Think Too Much (A)   Maybe I Think Too Much (B)   Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard   Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Demo - San Fr...   Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard [*]   Mother And Child Reunion   Mrs. Robinson   Mrs.Robinson   My Little Town   New York is My Home   Night Game   Nobody   Oh, Marion   Old   Old (Live)   Old Friends   Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean   One - Trick Pony   One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor   One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor   One Trick Pony   One-Trick Pony   Outrageous   Overs   Papa Hobo   Paranoia Blues   Paranoia Blues (Unreleased Version)   Paranoia Blues [#][*]   Patterns   Peace Like a River   Peggy-O   Pigs, Sheep & Wolves   Pigs, Sheep And Wolves   Pigs, Sheeps and Wolves   Proof   Punky's Dilemma   Punky's Dilemma   Quality   Questions For The Angels   Quet   Quiet   Red Rubber Ball   Rene & Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The...   Rene & Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After...   Rene and georgette magritte   Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After t...   Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After T...   Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After t...   Rewrite   Rhythm of the Saints   Richard Cory   Rose Of Aberdeen   Run That Body Down   Satin Summer Nights   Save The Life Of My Child   Scarborough Fair   Señorita With a Necklace of Tears   Senorita With A Necklace   Senorita With A Necklace Of Tears   Seu00f1orita With a Necklace of Tears   She Moves On   Silent Eyes   Slip Slidin Away   Slip Slidin' Away   Slip Slidin' Away   Slip Sliding Away   So Beautiful Or So What   So Long Frank Lloyd Wright   Soft Parachutes   Some Folks Lives Roll Easy   Something So Right   Something So Right [Live for Radio 1]   Song About the Moon   Song For The Asking   Sound of Silence   Sounds Of Silence   Sparrow   Spirit Voices   Spirit Voices [Work-In-Progress][#][*]   St. Judy's Comet   St. Judy's Comet   Star Carol   Still Crazy   Still Crazy After All These Years   Stranded In A Limousine   Stranded in a Limousine [*]   Stranded in a Limousine [#][*]   Stranger To Stranger   Sunday Afternoon   Sure Don't Feel Like Love   Sure Don't Feel Like Love   Take Me to the Mardi Gras   Take Me To The Mardi Gras (acoustic Demo)   Take Me to the Mardi Gras [Acoustic Demo][#][*]   Take Me to the Mardi Gras [Acoustic Demo][#][*]   Teacher   Ten Years   Tenderness   That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine   That Was Your Mother   That's Me   That's Where I Belong   That's Why God Made The Movies   That's Me   That's Where I Belong   That's Why God Made The Movies   The 59th Street Bridge Song (feelin Groovy)   The Afterlife   The Afterlife (Single)   The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine   The Boxer   The Boxer [Live]   The Boy In The Bubble   The Coast   The Cool, Cool River   The Cool, Cool River [Live]   The Dangling Conversation   The Last Unicorn   The Late Great Johnny Ace   The Late Great Johnny Ace (demo)   The Late Great Johnny Ace [Original Acoustic Demo]...   The Late Great Johnny Ace [Original Acoustic Demo]...   The Lion Sleeps Tonight   The Lone Teen Ranger   The Obvious Child   The Only Living Boy In New York   The Rhythm of the Saints   The Side Of A Hill   The Sound Of Silence   The Sound of Silence [Live]   The Sound of Silence [Live][#]   The Sound of Silence [Take #1]   The Sun Is Burning   The Teacher   The Time They Are A-Changin'   The Vampires   The Werewolf   Thelma   Thelma (Outtake)   Thelma [*]   Thelma [*][Outtake]   Thelma [*][Outtake]   Thelma [#]   Think Too Much   Think Too Much (A)   Think Too Much (B)   Think Too Much, Pt. A   Think Too Much, Pt. B   Time Is An Ocean   Tony Hernandez   Trailway Bus   Trailways Bus   Train in a Distance   Train in the Distance   Train In The Distance (demo)   Train in the Distance [Demo Version]   Train in the Distance [Original Acoustic Demo] [Bo...   Train in the Distance [Original Acoustic Demo][#][...   Train in the Distance [Original Acoustic Demo][Liv...   Twenty Five Years   Under African Skies   Under African Skies (Documentary)   Virgil   Voices Of Old People   Wake Up Little Susie   Walk Tall   Wartime Prayers   Was a Sunny Day   We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin'   We'll Never Say Goodbye   We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin'   Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.   When Numbers Get Serious   Why Don't You Write Me   Why Don't You Write Me   You Can Call Me Al   You Can Call Me Al (Demo)   You Can Tell The World   You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies   You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies   You're Kind   You're the One   You're Kind   You're The One

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