This song takes me back to my first girlfriend, who broke up with me in 1972 after two years together. It was an amicable breakup, although it devastated me. I sent her a card that had the lyrics to this song (sorry, there was no UA-cam or iTunes in those days, so I couldn't send the music.) I included a photograph of us, with the words on the back that said "Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you." Yes, indeed, time it was, and what a time it was.
How awesome is that! Wish I would’ve thought of that 2 years ago when I split with my ex girlfriend. Perhaps it would’ve changed her mind. But who knows.
I lost my wife of 50 years in January. This song hits the target in so many ways. It was a time of innocence, and I would give all I have to get it back again.
Your last sentence touched me so much. I lost my first wife in a mountain accident 33 years ago. I would give everything I own today just to go back to that time of innocence and be with her again…
@@CHRISTMAN13 I've had the same experience, CHRISTMAN13 - I saw everybody, all the people I've lost and I know you are right, he certainly will see her again.
I'm 75 and I remember well the pain of Nam, though as a female I could not serve, so I protested, but the war, not the soldiers. I never disrespected a soldier. Bless you for your service.
grant myers It is not so easy. I understand you, I practically live in my memories. I refuse to realise that time is passing by. I hope you feel better soon. Love.
To anybody. My sister passed. I pulled her out of a snowbank. Many years ago. She had freckles and was irascible and beautifully generous. So long Marie.
I think this must be one of the most emotional songs ever written, with so little words and such a simple melody. Only Simon and Garfunkel could reduce me to tears with such beautiful simplicity.
As you get older, these types of songs become even more meaningful. The memories we make and the ones we've forgotten. Life goes by so quickly, and you have to wonder what the writer and artist were feeling when they shared this - beautiful song.
This song makes me think of my Dad. I lost him three years ago last month. He was the best Dad to me, always encouraging and interested in my life. He was also my friend. Not a day goes by that I don't miss him.
Loss of innocence is probably the saddest stage of life since it's when you learn that there really is evil in the world. Simon and Garfunkel summed it up perfectly from the perspective of an elderly person. This song is amazing.
perfect description for this song . But not everything is sadness ... I mean it makes you strong against the evil in this world right? Wish we will still having that innocence when we grow up.
My 33 year old friend just died suddenly in his sleep yesterday. I am bawling my eyes listening to this. RIP Kev your smile was too beautiful for this world.
Upturned Blouse Collar maybe, with this song, rememer all the things you do with someone especial that now are in diferents ways. I appreciate my ex girl friend but i cant forget some actions and i cant forgive her... Its sad, but the life has unncontable wonderful and happy moments ...
My brother was going to school in the Bronx when this album came out. That summer he brought it home from college. I was 13 at the time. I listen to it a million times and knew every word to ever song. My brother use to give me hell for taking his album. LOL I love sing along with every song. This song really touched my heart. Fifteen years ago my brother took his life. This is my song to my brother.
+Daniel Cook I'm very sorry that you lost your brother to suicide, but I'm glad that he left you these memories. Those are yours to keep forever and they'll never die. Just remember that.
I'm so sorry about your brother. This song reminds me of my first love, who also left me the same way your brother left you, a week after my 19th birthday.
Here they are young and beautiful, but now they are over 70 and still friends. I have friends from my childhood that still to this day are my "old friends". We are now one year away from 80 and still friends. We will eventually pass, but real friendship never fades away.
You should all make sure that this song is played at each of your viewings or funerals. (8::^:(:: Her words began to stick, and tears to flow............
I have a severe case of nostalgia right now for all of these people that were once part of my life and now are gone. I can't believe how well this song captures my feelings. ♡
If you're using a computer, just right-click on the video and select "Loop", it will replay it automatically until you say stop. I'm sure there's a similar method for phone users.
I definitely understand auldsk8r, having lost my first love decades ago, and my husband of decades six months ago. Preserve those memories, treasure those memories.
BINGO! I always appreciated this song as a young teenager, but now that I am substantially older, I find it very reflective and sad at the same time. As far as preserving my memories, once your memory starts going you're screwed.
one of the saddest songs ever written... but strangely one of the most BEAUTIFUL songs ever written......still makes me cry after ALL these years!.... long ago it must be!!!!!
I have a photograph . Preserve your memories. They're all that's left you . Isn't that the truth when you get older . You will spend time looking at old photos and wonder where the time went
Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you.
Widowed these 8 years, this song hits home in ways it never had before. Being a natural storyteller, I preserve my memories by telling her stories. It keeps her in my life to the only degree possible, for now.
in case your told send money to a man. Do not ever do it. For if he wants it he will come to you. You have worth. Do not ever fall for a scammer. ok? me new widow . I refuse to cheapen me.
I was told to pay 500 for a visit with another. I am learning.I did not do it. But I catch my self wanting one last fantasy before my passing. Just only of it was real and not fake. Too look like wounder women and be loved for me for real. nope not send money and leave me to starve for it.
I didn't have access to much music as a little kid. I had ABBA Greatest Hits, Eva Cassidy's Songbird, and that was pretty much it. My brothers only listened to classical music because they simply didn't know there was anything else. Then, an album showed up in a box with a bunch of others, a gift from my uncle. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. I was 7. I put it on repeat, listening to it for countless hours. When i was 8, i fell asleep to it. When I was 9, it played loudly from my headphones on a yearly cross country trip. Every song was what I had been waiting to hear. I felt it. I laughed to it, I sang to it, i cried to it, I lived to it. I still listen to it. This song, especially, follows me through everything. I have a photograph. Preserve your memories. They're all that's left you.
I am 15 years old, my heart is beating fast, dancing with a sweet lovely girl, with this song in the background, i was so confused i couldn’t dare asking for her phone number... The song finished, back to my 65 years old, time for my pills, goodnight memories...
My dearest darling, a man so amazing I couldn't believe he was real at first, and for 40 years, I adored him and he adored me. He died in 2022. I still love him. I still miss him. Always will. I live on memories.
ed weglein Remember the show "James at 16"? I remember the episode where his best friend passed away and they played this song in the show. I think this song has a way of reminding those who lost a loved one.
ed weglein I really know what your saying ed ...I lost or I " should say my two sisters and two brothers and I lost our gorgeous beloved sister Sunday gone .We all loved her even tho we didn't see her though rose coloured glasses .But we know we loved her .And we knew she loved us unconditionally. R.I.P Maree
when i was 5 i moved to La from kansas, i listened to this song everynight for years. i couldnt get over the move. i lost my childhood and woke up in a land where i had to find my new self. a self that could survive LA.
This one really hits me right into my heart. My youth pops up in my head like a photograph. Jesus....so few chords and a simple melody...but sooooo beautiful.
I am writing a blog post on my birthday this year. I will be 70 and the title of the post will be "Time it was. . ." So, of course, I had to find the video to remind me of who I was and how I felt so long ago.
randall pillion The world would be a better place with more people like you in it. Very kind of you to take the time to reach out to others. God Bless! :)
In April, my Mom passed away suddenly from a pulmonary embolism. She basically went to bed and died. Her death is truly the most devastating thing I have ever experienced. She went so suddenly that I never had a real chance of saying goodbye to her while she was alive. The only positives I can take is that she is no longer suffering (she had been battling Crohn’s disease) and is back with many of the relatives that she missed dearly. I love and miss her a lot. She was truly an incredible woman.
When we're so busy living we often forget our own mortality. This song so beautifully reminds us of that reality. This song and the line from "Old Friends" .... Silently sharing the same fear...
I've been listening to this song for 50 years and today I HEARD the lyrics for the first time. Some of us are slow to hear. It was a time of innocence. How I long for that time of innocence, that time of confidence. Oh, 2020. You betrayed us.
This song is a beautiful reminder of childhood and growing up my dad was alive and it was a happy time. Im 35 I have a strong connection to this song I think of my dad when I hear this.
Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or saw your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy, maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted.
one of the things I love about You Tube, is that it allows me to be close to other peoples sensitivies. Maybe because of these rough times, that it is difficult to be a human being sometimes, maybe because we are all locked away to protect ourselves from this virus, but I have been touched and made more, by the way people share themselves, and often times it is instigated, by a bit of music that touches us in the same way, way down deep.
The lyrics are so close to home- "I saw a photograph/Preserve your memories, their all that's left of you" I don't even know myself anymore because of my depression. So often I do like to look through my memory box- Letters from friends and pictures where I looked truly happy. It's always incredibly bittersweet and nostalgic, much like this beautiful song.
Ashley, Sadness needs something to be sad about. But you can be happy about nothing at all. I hope these words reach your inner understanding. much love.
Ashley, We're all going through our troughs and highs... We gotta fight the good fight, no? Think about all those millions who do not even have the luxury to be depressed... YOU WILL NOT GIVE UP!
Wonder years brought me here. I'm 30 this year in 2018 and I'm having a quarter life crisis. I miss my mother and father together. At a simpler time..a time of innocence. Time move faster than what I can catch up with. I heard this on 500 days of summer and it made me cry...
Can't believe you looped it three times that's awesome! Just shows how heart-wrenchingly beautiful a song can be in just barely over a minute. So much so that it's impossible not to play it again.
This is another one of those songs that seems too short. A song you want playing in the background, in another room, on a humid rainy summer night. I remember the day my father got me a record player. Along original vinyls of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and so many more. This particular song truly resonates with me. Whatever this song reminds you of, all I know is, this song is sweet and buttery and just pure joy.🖤
It's like this song is pulling out the saddest memories long buried in my subconscious. That kind of feeling you have to stop whatever it is that you're doing because there's so much... I don't know... pain? Something much deeper than pain. Something that can't be healed by time. :(
i know precisely what you mean. i can't put it into words, so i am letting the song do it for me. i am writing a novel about a liberal seminary where my dad taught, and the campus i grew up on until 1970, called Tributary. (i was 12 when this album came out and i bought it because i liked Mrs. Robinson, which started my love of S & G). now that i am thinking about it all kinds of things, some of them quite funny are coming back to me. and i have been interviewing people who were there in the 50s before i came along. i wanted to open the book w/ a certain melancholy, sense of loss, and the pain over the realization that i cannot go back there (i frequently dream about the place.), so i put the words of Bookends before the title page, and a link to it. perfect. just what it needs. mks
Matthew K. Smith Exactly, like forgotten dreams. I am in my early twenties and I sincerely hope that when I reach my 50s I won't listen to this song with regret or disdain :( I wish the best for your novel. Bookends seems to be the perfect opening quote. :)
well, at that time there wasn't much disdain, regret, or anything else negative. "It was a time of innocence, a time of confidences..." the angst and regret came much later. but i don't regret all that much, altho i have made many mistakes. i have led an interesting, adventurous life, and lived many places, as well as been w/ a handful of brainy, empathetic women. when i think of the seminary however, how young i was at the time, w/ much to learn, so many things around me that were so interesting, and held my fascination. i can't go back to that sense of wonder and bewilderment, as much as i like to. or there again. it is like my own childhood Camelot. there is where the pain of the theme lies for me and this story.. mks
I cannot cry with this song... What I feel when listening to this song is something deeper. Like just lay on my bed and think in the saddest moments of my life, but don't feel sad just think...
My father died suddenly in 1973, when I was fifteen. He loved this song. I keep a photograph of him on my desk. Many years later, I was talking to my daughter. She told me she heard Bookends for the first time when she was an early teen, and she was "devastated". I never knew. But I think my father's spirit was speaking to her. He would have loved her very much, she is so much like my mom.
I posted this on someone else's posting of this song, so please don't mind me doing so again. I began to both listen to & enjoy this song in 1980. I was 25 then, & I also worked for the railroad (Conrail) for 4 years at that time. I would always think of the "old timers" on the railroad, retired or about to retire, when I listened to this song. Time marched on, Conrail was divided up by both Norfolk Southern & CSX on June 1, 1999, & I wound up in the Norfolk Southern portion. I'm now 60, & I retired from the railroad on March 2, 2015 after 39 years of service. I'm now one of the "old timers" on the railroad. Where did the time go?
Ha la la cette chanson a fini par me faire pleurer ...la nostalgie de mon grand Amour ...c'était il y a bien longtemps.... le temps passe mais rien ne s s'efface....my old friend 💕bonne nuit 💕
One of the first songs I learned on guitar. Now, working on the hospital floor in the midst of a pandemic, watching loved ones say their final goodbyes behind glass, this song plays in my mind and brings tears to my eyes. Be thankful for the time you have with each other. Be good to one another. You never know what tomorrow will bring. Give love to today.
This song feels alot like a beach, with the waves flowing back and forth, its motion repeating and the place rarely changes, but the circumstances under which you visit them very often do.
Even as a young person, this song packs an emotional wallop. And it gets ever more poignant as the years pass. A masterpiece, one which sears the soul.
500 Days of Summer brought me here.
that movie has the best selection of soundtracks.
+Giolo Perez same
+Giolo Perez same :)
And Girl Interrupted
That soundtrack is amazing!
"Coming Home", 1978.
This song takes me back to my first girlfriend, who broke up with me in 1972 after two years together. It was an amicable breakup, although it devastated me. I sent her a card that had the lyrics to this song (sorry, there was no UA-cam or iTunes in those days, so I couldn't send the music.) I included a photograph of us, with the words on the back that said "Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you." Yes, indeed, time it was, and what a time it was.
I cried.
Waw! No words about it, only tears!
That's beautiful
Bob Marshall This song takes me back to watching “Girl Interrupted” . Good fucking times
How awesome is that! Wish I would’ve thought of that 2 years ago when I split with my ex girlfriend. Perhaps it would’ve changed her mind. But who knows.
I lost my wife of 50 years in January. This song hits the target in so many ways.
It was a time of innocence, and I would give all I have to get it back again.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
50 years, beautiful
Your last sentence touched me so much. I lost my first wife in a mountain accident 33 years ago. I would give everything I own today just to go back to that time of innocence and be with her again…
I'm so sorry, I had an accident that stopped my heart for over 3 minutes, all i will say is that you will see her again . I promise...
@@CHRISTMAN13 I've had the same experience, CHRISTMAN13 - I saw everybody, all the people I've lost and I know you are right, he certainly will see her again.
First heard this when I was 24 and fresh from the infantry in nam. Now I am 77 and it means even more to me. Can't stop weeping sometimes.
Beautiful story. Beautiful song.
Broke my heart with that last sentence. I am in my 70's and sending you giant ❤️
I bid you peace. Be well.
I love you
I'm 75 and I remember well the pain of Nam, though as a female I could not serve, so I protested, but the war, not the soldiers. I never disrespected a soldier. Bless you for your service.
My dad sang this to me as a little kid before bed. Preserve your memories.
your comment hit me hard.
grant myers It is not so easy. I understand you, I practically live in my memories. I refuse to realise that time is passing by. I hope you feel better soon. Love.
grant myers Love.
Every passing second is now history, and a memory. Make them happy ones. :)
Me too! For My first son, Fabrizio!
Just another forgotten treasure of brilliant songwriting. What an era that was.
To anybody. My sister passed. I pulled her out of a snowbank. Many years ago. She had freckles and was irascible and beautifully generous. So long Marie.
I listen to this song every New Years' eve, just before midnight. Couldn't think of a better way to end a year-- this time, a decade.
A very good Idea, I'm honing to do the same!
going
woow. thank you. 💕
Imma do that
Beautiful words Beautiful music
I think this must be one of the most emotional songs ever written, with so little words and such a simple melody. Only Simon and Garfunkel could reduce me to tears with such beautiful simplicity.
I agree 100%
+nerd5759 listen 2 sallys pigeons if u want emos
The true power of music
+Peace Milly try listening with your mom in the icu.
I totally agree
As you get older, these types of songs become even more meaningful. The memories we make and the ones we've forgotten. Life goes by so quickly, and you have to wonder what the writer and artist were feeling when they shared this - beautiful song.
This song makes me think of my Dad. I lost him three years ago last month. He was the best Dad to me, always encouraging and interested in my life. He was also my friend. Not a day goes by that I don't miss him.
Loss of innocence is probably the saddest stage of life since it's when you learn that there really is evil in the world. Simon and Garfunkel summed it up perfectly from the perspective of an elderly person. This song is amazing.
Never thought of it that way but you are100% correct. You are exactly right.
+doc yeah... :(
perfect description for this song . But not everything is sadness ... I mean it makes you strong against the evil in this world right? Wish we will still having that innocence when we grow up.
porpoisefathom Very true :(
But Paul was very young when he wrote this song. Our sadness and mourning for our flitting innocence starts very early in our lives.
My 33 year old friend just died suddenly in his sleep yesterday. I am bawling my eyes listening to this.
RIP Kev your smile was too beautiful for this world.
My prayers are with you ❤️
Very sad you lost your Friend..the memories of you and Kevin will live oan, especially thro' this beautiful song.
This is one of the few songs that can make me cry for no reason.
Upturned Blouse Collar maybe, with this song, rememer all the things you do with someone especial that now are in diferents ways. I appreciate my ex girl friend but i cant forget some actions and i cant forgive her... Its sad, but the life has unncontable wonderful and happy moments ...
Cry and let your emotions come out
💔
no one cries for no reason
@@joemac7690
😂😂
My son went to heaven on 5/21/23 , just 4 weeks after birth; too bad this song was longer because it captures my pain.
Blessings
I'm so sorry for your loss. Sending you healing hugz
My brother was going to school in the Bronx when this album came out. That summer he brought it home from college. I was 13 at the time. I listen to it a million times and knew every word to ever song. My brother use to give me hell for taking his album. LOL I love sing along with every song. This song really touched my heart. Fifteen years ago my brother took his life. This is my song to my brother.
for me to my sister.
Daniel Cook dude do you mind if I ask why
Dedicated to my father. Daniel, I know how you feel..my father took his life as well.
+Daniel Cook I'm very sorry that you lost your brother to suicide, but I'm glad that he left you these memories. Those are yours to keep forever and they'll never die. Just remember that.
I'm so sorry about your brother. This song reminds me of my first love, who also left me the same way your brother left you, a week after my 19th birthday.
Here they are young and beautiful, but now they are over 70 and still friends. I have friends from my childhood that still to this day are my "old friends". We are now one year away from 80 and still friends. We will eventually pass, but real friendship never fades away.
Lovely words. Such is life.
god bless you and your old friends, m'am.
Thank you both.
You should all make sure that this song is played at each of your viewings or funerals.
(8::^:(::
Her words began to stick, and tears to flow............
r5t6y12 Was played at my mothers viewing in 1988. I still cry every time I hear this song.
500 Days of Summer brought me here. And I am still here in 2024 !
I have a severe case of nostalgia right now for all of these people that were once part of my life and now are gone. I can't believe how well this song captures my feelings. ♡
Right! I relate it to a love from nearly 20 years ago. This what I hear when I think of her...
I need an hour loop of this song so I can cry in peace
How are you holding up?
UA-cam has a loop feature.
Same here, I keep rewinding
Same. This song really stirs my soul and makes me yearn for my youth and first love.
If you're using a computer, just right-click on the video and select "Loop", it will replay it automatically until you say stop. I'm sure there's a similar method for phone users.
I never really understood the line: "Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you" until I hit middle age. Now I understand it only too well.
I definitely understand auldsk8r, having lost my first love decades ago, and my husband of decades six months ago. Preserve those memories, treasure those memories.
That’s exactly the way it supposed to happen :-)
This is my coffin exit song. Already in my funeral plan!
BINGO! I always appreciated this song as a young teenager, but now that I am substantially older, I find it very reflective and sad at the same time. As far as preserving my memories, once your memory starts going you're screwed.
I think they started my obsession with capturing every moment that managed to get it's own smell
Every time I hear this, images just flash through my mind of people who are gone from my life. I am happy for the memories and cherish them.
one of the saddest songs ever written... but strangely one of the most BEAUTIFUL songs ever written......still makes me cry after ALL these years!.... long ago it must be!!!!!
Jason Marrow This song speaks to my soul. I just lost a friend this week and this song is helping me deal with that.
I have a photograph .
Preserve your memories.
They're all that's left you .
Isn't that the truth when you get older . You will spend time looking at old photos and wonder where the time went
Wonder Years captured this song perfectly ❤
They were in the era of when this song played. That show had the best soundtrack ever ❤
God, even the comments to this song have me fighting back tears. So very simple, but so powerful. A masterpiece to my ears.
Im crying as I read them all 😂
Time it was
And what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you.
it was
Memories, imagination...the only way to time travel.
The saddest part is that memory itself is changing, it's untrustworthy. What we think it was may never have been.
So beautiful !!
Thanks Sherlock
I listen to this every year on the day my Dad passed. Such a pretty song.
I listen to it on the day my Mum passed. I understand.
Widowed these 8 years, this song hits home in ways it never had before. Being a natural storyteller, I preserve my memories by telling her stories. It keeps her in my life to the only degree possible, for now.
in case your told send money to a man. Do not ever do it. For if he wants it he will come to you. You have worth. Do not ever fall for a scammer. ok? me new widow . I refuse to cheapen me.
@@karenharris3183 Money comes, money goes. It's import in my life is minimal. It's my dear ones that make it worth carrying on.
I was told to pay 500 for a visit with another. I am learning.I did not do it. But I catch my self wanting one last fantasy before my passing. Just only of it was real and not fake. Too look like wounder women and be loved for me for real. nope not send money and leave me to starve for it.
tell us a story
@@rondaallen7211 I do not have one yet.
The simple acoustic guitar ... just gorgeous.
I've been a Simon & Garfunkel fan for almost 50 years..
Bob C Same here, my friend.
Bob C Simon and Garfunkels Greatest Hits was the first album I ever bought many years ago, still have it, and their other great albums!
I didn't have access to much music as a little kid. I had ABBA Greatest Hits, Eva Cassidy's Songbird, and that was pretty much it. My brothers only listened to classical music because they simply didn't know there was anything else. Then, an album showed up in a box with a bunch of others, a gift from my uncle. Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. I was 7. I put it on repeat, listening to it for countless hours. When i was 8, i fell asleep to it. When I was 9, it played loudly from my headphones on a yearly cross country trip. Every song was what I had been waiting to hear. I felt it. I laughed to it, I sang to it, i cried to it, I lived to it. I still listen to it. This song, especially, follows me through everything. I have a photograph. Preserve your memories. They're all that's left you.
no matter what, this song will always have a special place in my heart
God bless you for looping this. One listen is never suffice.
Just breathtaking. Even though I wasn't born during that time, it still makes me feel nostalgic. Their music just does that to people.
Reading the comments to this song is as touching as the song itself.
All of us individual but sharing a collective emotion.
Much love ♥
I am 15 years old, my heart is beating fast, dancing with a sweet lovely girl, with this song in the background, i was so confused i couldn’t dare asking for her phone number...
The song finished, back to my 65 years old, time for my pills, goodnight memories...
oh my god , you are an author !
Lol youll be ok
at this age, we all look back...
Man :C
❤️
I always used to wish bookends theme was longer, I still do. Such a powerful song.
Kristen L We all do :) . I wish it would never end :)
It fits the theme of the song the way it is. Something never quite as long as we'd like
It will never end...So beautiful.
+Kristen L If it was longer it wouldn't be as powerful. They said all that needed to be said.
Dreamboat Annie...the same way...
Has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever written
no. It is the most beautiful.
Which movie
My dearest darling, a man so amazing I couldn't believe he was real at first, and for 40 years, I adored him and he adored me. He died in 2022. I still love him. I still miss him. Always will. I live on memories.
This song makes me think of my late sister, who lost her life at the too young age of 36 nearly 26 years ago. We'll never stop missing her.....
ed weglein I am extremely sorry to hear that, she was a great person.
ed weglein Remember the show "James at 16"? I remember the episode where his best friend passed away and they played this song in the show. I think this song has a way of reminding those who lost a loved one.
+Dick Griffin and you are failing to emphasise even worse.
ed weglein I really know what your saying ed ...I lost or I " should say my two sisters and two brothers and I lost our gorgeous beloved sister Sunday gone .We all loved her even tho we didn't see her though rose coloured glasses .But we know we loved her .And we knew she loved us unconditionally. R.I.P Maree
when i was 5 i moved to La from kansas, i listened to this song everynight for years. i couldnt get over the move. i lost my childhood and woke up in a land where i had to find my new self. a self that could survive LA.
i am 70 today. First heard this somg 50 years ago. who knew.
Happy Birthday! You have great taste in music if you are listening to this.
@@arthurb5803 as do you!
This one really hits me right into my heart. My youth pops up in my head like a photograph.
Jesus....so few chords and a simple melody...but sooooo beautiful.
One of the shortest song ever written, and one of the most profound. A lifetime of memories with only few sentences.
'I have a photograph..' I can't look at photos from my past 20 years it destroys me, but as Paul says..'they're all that's left me..
I feel you. All the memories. The innocence. The love. Hiraeth.
I am writing a blog post on my birthday this year. I will be 70 and the title of the post will be "Time it was. . ." So, of course, I had to find the video to remind me of who I was and how I felt so long ago.
I'm so sorry for your pain....I want it all to stop for each of you....peace
randall pillion The world would be a better place with more people like you in it. Very kind of you to take the time to reach out to others. God Bless! :)
Without photographs, even memory fades.
In April, my Mom passed away suddenly from a pulmonary embolism. She basically went to bed and died. Her death is truly the most devastating thing I have ever experienced. She went so suddenly that I never had a real chance of saying goodbye to her while she was alive.
The only positives I can take is that she is no longer suffering (she had been battling Crohn’s disease) and is back with many of the relatives that she missed dearly.
I love and miss her a lot. She was truly an incredible woman.
Sorry for your loss...stay strong (Hope you the best from France)
Simon and Garfunkel seem to be music history's most underappreciated artists .The songs they wrote were very poetic and powerful
This is probably the saddest song I know.
It doesn't even make me cry, it's even too sad for that... does that make sense.
Makes perfect sense
This describes what I feel!
Tchikanii Flat affect
Tchikanii, yes, it makes sense. It is because what they are saying is about times that will never come again.
When we're so busy living we often forget our own mortality. This song so beautifully reminds us of that reality. This song and the line from "Old Friends" .... Silently sharing the same fear...
I've been listening to this song for 50 years and today I HEARD the lyrics for the first time. Some of us are slow to hear. It was a time of innocence. How I long for that time of innocence, that time of confidence. Oh, 2020. You betrayed us.
The wonder years brought me here. I've seen that show over a dozen times and I don't get tired of it. They had an amazing soundtrack
This song is a beautiful reminder of childhood and growing up my dad was alive and it was a happy time. Im 35 I have a strong connection to this song I think of my dad when I hear this.
One of few songs that can possess every emotion I hold dear. It brings me to true peace and reflection. Thank You...
Simon and Garfunkel are kings of knowing how to make you so sad without crying
....but pretty famn good at making one cry anyway....🥺🥺🥺
Masterpiece. I can relate to these words so easily. This is a song for humanity.
Have you ever confused a dream with life?
Or stolen something when you have the cash?
Have you ever been blue?
Or saw your train moving while sitting still?
Maybe I was just crazy, maybe it was the 60s.
Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted.
So beautiful movie lines :)
iconic
akemi Girl interupted bought me here. That movie was a big part of my life back then.
of what movie are you talking about?
isabella Girl, Interrupted
one of the things I love about You Tube, is that it allows me to be close to other peoples sensitivies. Maybe because of these rough times, that it is difficult to be a human being sometimes, maybe because we are all locked away to protect ourselves from this virus, but I have been touched and made more, by the way people share themselves, and often times it is instigated, by a bit of music that touches us in the same way, way down deep.
The lyrics are so close to home- "I saw a photograph/Preserve your memories, their all that's left of you" I don't even know myself anymore because of my depression. So often I do like to look through my memory box- Letters from friends and pictures where I looked truly happy. It's always incredibly bittersweet and nostalgic, much like this beautiful song.
Ashley, Sadness needs something to be sad about. But you can be happy about nothing at all. I hope these words reach your inner understanding. much love.
Ashley, We're all going through our troughs and highs... We gotta fight the good fight, no? Think about all those millions who do not even have the luxury to be depressed... YOU WILL NOT GIVE UP!
I feel the same way. ♡
How are you now? 2 years on? Depression is a bitch. Battle it too.
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Beautiful, gentle, melancholic-- it makes me cry.
How can these young ambitious men know the importance of experience and memories........magical !
Wonder years brought me here. I'm 30 this year in 2018 and I'm having a quarter life crisis. I miss my mother and father together. At a simpler time..a time of innocence. Time move faster than what I can catch up with. I heard this on 500 days of summer and it made me cry...
Wrote 30 years before I was born, yet it still speaks to my heart.
I remember thinking of my best friend in HS, late 1960s. So sad and sweet. This new year I'll be 70. So many life memories.
Can't believe you looped it three times that's awesome! Just shows how heart-wrenchingly beautiful a song can be in just barely over a minute. So much so that it's impossible not to play it again.
Oh wow! Shows my ignorance, I thought it was how the song went. The uploader did a wonderful thing. xx
This is another one of those songs that seems too short. A song you want playing in the background, in another room, on a humid rainy summer night. I remember the day my father got me a record player. Along original vinyls of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and so many more. This particular song truly resonates with me.
Whatever this song reminds you of, all I know is, this song is sweet and buttery and just pure joy.🖤
It's like this song is pulling out the saddest memories long buried in my subconscious. That kind of feeling you have to stop whatever it is that you're doing because there's so much... I don't know... pain? Something much deeper than pain. Something that can't be healed by time. :(
i know precisely what you mean. i can't put it into words, so i am letting the song do it for me. i am writing a novel about a liberal seminary where my dad taught, and the campus i grew up on until 1970, called Tributary. (i was 12 when this album came out and i bought it because i liked Mrs. Robinson, which started my love of S & G). now that i am thinking about it all kinds of things, some of them quite funny are coming back to me. and i have been interviewing people who were there in the 50s before i came along. i wanted to open the book w/ a certain melancholy, sense of loss, and the pain over the realization that i cannot go back there (i frequently dream about the place.), so i put the words of Bookends before the title page, and a link to it. perfect. just what it needs.
mks
Matthew K. Smith Exactly, like forgotten dreams. I am in my early twenties and I sincerely hope that when I reach my 50s I won't listen to this song with regret or disdain :(
I wish the best for your novel. Bookends seems to be the perfect opening quote. :)
well, at that time there wasn't much disdain, regret, or anything else negative. "It was a time of innocence, a time of confidences..." the angst and regret came much later. but i don't regret all that much, altho i have made many mistakes. i have led an interesting, adventurous life, and lived many places, as well as been w/ a handful of brainy, empathetic women. when i think of the seminary however, how young i was at the time, w/ much to learn, so many things around me that were so interesting, and held my fascination. i can't go back to that sense of wonder and bewilderment, as much as i like to. or there again. it is like my own childhood Camelot. there is where the pain of the theme lies for me and this story..
mks
hey, you got your whole life ahead of you. why are you dwelling on such a maudlin tune?
Grief
I remember listening to this song, and this album as a young child in the 70's. My father had the vinyl and the 8 track. What a time it was ...
I cannot cry with this song... What I feel when listening to this song is something deeper. Like just lay on my bed and think in the saddest moments of my life, but don't feel sad just think...
Paul's slight smile of satisfaction, for a forever song well written.
"How terribly strange to be 70........." Amen
Got that right.
I wish these two guys would have learned to love each other the way we loved them.
Too true! Too very true
My father died suddenly in 1973, when I was fifteen. He loved this song. I keep a photograph of him on my desk. Many years later, I was talking to my daughter. She told me she heard Bookends for the first time when she was an early teen, and she was "devastated". I never knew. But I think my father's spirit was speaking to her. He would have loved her very much, she is so much like my mom.
I'm sat here don't know if i will wake in the morning, but what a time it was a time it was.. ❤️🙏
I posted this on someone else's posting of this song, so please don't mind me doing so again. I began to both listen to & enjoy this song in 1980. I was 25 then, & I also worked for the railroad (Conrail) for 4 years at that time. I would always think of the "old timers" on the railroad, retired or about to retire, when I listened to this song. Time marched on, Conrail was divided up by both Norfolk Southern & CSX on June 1, 1999, & I wound up in the Norfolk Southern portion. I'm now 60, & I retired from the railroad on March 2, 2015 after 39 years of service. I'm now one of the "old timers" on the railroad. Where did the time go?
Pat Somers Everyone goes through it. Nobody escapes. :)
Girl Interrumped e (500) Days of Summer
I STARTED A NOVEL WITH IT. AND THIS STORY CANNOT BE HEALED BY TIME. THAT IS WHY I CHOSE IT. BRAVO.
what is the novel about?
Helen Dumitran
the people in this story bought me a new computer, and contributed about $1000 to my move. they are my tru friends.
The harmony is this recording is wonderful!
Bookends---My first Simon & Garfunkel album...
Played it to death..
The wonder years take me here, cheers from Medellin Colombia
Kiubo :0
Gives me chills every time.
Ha la la cette chanson a fini par me faire pleurer ...la nostalgie de mon grand Amour ...c'était il y a bien longtemps.... le temps passe mais rien ne s s'efface....my old friend 💕bonne nuit 💕
Bonne nuit je pense à toi
Can’t listen to this without tears in my eyes and a smile on my face thinking of my father. The most beautiful song ever written.
So sad, so beautiful. A perfect lament for everyone who has lost something special
In their lives....
One of the first songs I learned on guitar. Now, working on the hospital floor in the midst of a pandemic, watching loved ones say their final goodbyes behind glass, this song plays in my mind and brings tears to my eyes. Be thankful for the time you have with each other. Be good to one another. You never know what tomorrow will bring. Give love to today.
one of the sweetest melodies I've ever heard...and touches my heart with the poignant sentiment.
Master musican Paul simon ❤
Sang this song to my son every night as a baby - so many beautiful memories x
This song reminds me of so many people who I loved that are gone now.
Hauntingly beautiful in it's simplicity and what it means.
Absolutely beautiful 50 odd years later and the words fir so well 😢😢😢😢💕
This song feels alot like a beach, with the waves flowing back and forth, its motion repeating and the place rarely changes, but the circumstances under which you visit them very often do.
Very well said.
This song reminds me of when my son moved out of the house to start his life. I still see him but it will never be the same. Very bittersweet.
Even as a young person, this song packs an emotional wallop. And it gets ever more poignant as the years pass. A masterpiece, one which sears the soul.
Difficult to explain, and it touches deep inside. Clever and touching.🌟🌟🌟
the wonder years brought me here. ❤️
Been listening since I was 12 years old, I'm now 63...never gets old. #timeless
Doesn't matter the mood I'm in. Whenever this song comes on I just feel this heavy sadness on my shoulders :(