Paul Simon’s usually a good lyricist
but “my words like silent raindrops fell“?
Come on, Paul, I can write lyrics like that: “I’m all alone like a lonely tree.” ta-da! or really “I all alone like a lonely tree am.”
Reminds me a bit of the bad metaphors contest, my favorites of which are the simple ones:
- He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
- John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.