Soft Parachutes
Paul Simon * Track #13 On One-Trick Pony
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Album One-Trick Pony
- #1Late in the Evening
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- #2That’s Why God Made the Movies
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- #3One Trick Pony
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- #4How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
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- #5Oh, Marion
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- #6Ace in the Hole
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- #7Nobody
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- #8Jonah
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- #9God Bless the Absentee
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- #10Long, Long Day
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- #11All Because of You
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- #12Spiral Highway
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- #13Soft Parachutes
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Soft Parachutes by Paul Simon
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Paul SimonAbout
Paul Simon wrote this song for the fictional singer-songwriter, Jonah Levin, that Simon himself portrayed in the film “One Trick Pony”.
In the film, the song is presented as as a classic anti-Vietnam War ballad that catapulted the character (Levin) to fame upon its release during the war and became...
Soft Parachutes Lyrics
Soft parachutes
Fourth of July
Villages burning
Returning
The bodies all laid in a line
Like soft parachutes
Last year as a senior
In Emerson High school
I had me a girlfriend
We used to get high
Now I am flyin
Down some Vietnam highway
Don't ask me the reason
God only knows why
Soft parachutes
Fourth of July
Villages burning
Returning
The bodies all laid in a line
Like soft parachutes