Matt Bate ☆ We Are Young

Kathy’s Song
(Paul Simon)

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls

My mind’s distracted and confused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you’re asleep
Kiss you when you start the day

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There before the grace of you go I

?Tab/Chords
found on (#1) TAT (cd/cas), WW; (#2) LAP. Compilations: Acoustic; Acoustic Chill; Maid In Manhattan (Original Soundtrack); Mystera #8; Songbirds – The Essential Album; [more…] Ultimate Chick Flick Love Songs.
?#1 is base text. Variants in #2:
After l. 4 Eva sings original second stanza:
‘And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To a land where my heart lies’.
In the last line Paul Simon sings ‘England’: see text at Paul Simon’s website (for list of lyrics select Songs in the Navigation bar).
After l. 8:
‘Now the song I was writing is left undone
I don뭪 know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can뭪 believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme’.
And this:
‘And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held was true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you’.
?Thus LAP is full version, but TAT, a demo, omits stanzas 2, 4-5 of the original six.
?l. 12: we do hear ‘before’; Paul Simon sings ‘but for’.
?KS took its name from Paul Simon’s English girlfriend Kathy Chitty, who also adorns the cover of his Song Book album.
?French translation (search for: Eva Cassidy).
?PL – Song by song.
original: Paul Simon (1965).
covers: Shawn Colvin (1998); Ryan & Rachel O’Donnell (2003); Simon & Garfunkle (1966); Nancy Wilson (1999) (Cover Info; Covers Project).
?Original tab by aniafelskowska at Yahoo EC group (Marta).
tab by evafan25 (Matt).
chords by Gianni Filippini.