A few days until the midterm elections, we the people need to pull out the unwanted and unqualified weeds by the roots.
Anticipation released 51 years ago, could apply for the present and might seem whimsical but it's Simon’s finest work.
She wrote it while waiting to go on a date with Cat Stevens. "That's only one of three times that that's ever happened to me. That I just sat down and wrote the whole song in just one 15 minute stretch. The result is lovely.
Time gave those lyrics a deeper meaning, less about impatiently wondering about what's happening in the here and now, and more about the preciousness of love as we get older. Simon admitted in a 2010 interview that playing the song live made her cry, explaining: It reportedly made her think that not only was the hourglass tipped over on its other side, but there was more sand at the bottom of the hourglass than the top.
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