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** From "Old Friends": "Old friends / Sat on a park bench like ''bookends''."
* [[American Title]]: "America"
* [[Anti
* [[Big Applesauce]]: "Bleecker Street", "The Only Living Boy in New York", "The 59th Street Bridge Song", and their triumphant 1981 live album, ''The Concert in Central Park''
* [[Book Ends]]: The aptly-named pair of "Bookends Theme" songs on the aptly-named ''Bookends'' album [[Department of Redundancy Department|aptly bookend]] the A-side of the album.
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* [[Never Be Hurt Again]]: "I Am A Rock" describes the feelings of someone who doesn't want to love anymore because they were hurt by it once.
* [[New Sound Album]]: Their debut, ''Wednesday Morning, 3 AM'', had more of a traditional acoustic folk sound; the second album, ''Sound of Silence'', was where they shifted to more of a rock instrumentation and approach.
* [[One
* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: More than once. The duo reunited for a single song, "My Little Town", in 1975. In 1981 they came together for a free concert in Central Park, New York City, which drew a crowd of over 500,000 people. This led to a world tour and their first new album in over a decade--until Simon mixed Garfunkel's vocals out of the album completely and released it as a Paul Simon solo album titled ''Hearts and Bones''. In the 1990s the duo toured together briefly, and in the 2000s they reunited again and toured extensively.
* [[Refrain From Assuming]]: "Feeling Groovy" is actually "The 59th Street Bridge Song," but few people remember that
* [[Repurposed Pop Song]]: "The Sounds of Silence" was used during the film adaptation of ''[[Watchmen]]''. It is also the opening song for ''[[The Graduate]]'', which also uses "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" several times.
** "At the Zoo" was used for advertisements for the Bronx Zoo and the San Francisco Zoo in the late 1970s, though this may overlap with [[Isn't It Ironic?]] due to the song being more of an allegory for human nature. However, [[Paul Simon]] himself later repurposed the song in the form of [http://www.amazon.com/AT-ZOO-Books-Young-Readers/dp/0385417713 a children's book with the same title].
* [[Rockumentary]]: ''Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America'' is a rather unique television special that aired on CBS in 1969. Much of the special is a fairly conventional rockumentary featuring interviews with the duo, footage of the duo working in the studio, and film from the 1969 tour. This portion includes [[Early
* [[Singing Simlish]]: "The Boxer" and its "Lie la lie" chorus.
* [[Single
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night". ''Big'' time.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: On ''Bridge over Troubled Water'', "Baby Driver" (a silly little [[Intercourse With You]] song in great contrast to the very serious tone of most of the other songs) and "Bye Bye Love" (an Everly Brothers cover, and possibly a [[Call Back]] to their earlier years as "Tom and Jerry").
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