Paul Simon - How Can You Live In The Northeast [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1]
We heard the fireworks
Rushed out to watch the sky
Happy go lucky, 4th of July

[Chorus]
How can you live in the Northeast?
How can you live in the South?
How can you live on the banks of a river
When the floodwater pours from the mouth?

[Verse 2]
How can you be a Christian?
How can you be a Jew?
How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu?
How can you?

Weak as the winter sun, we enter life on earth
Names and religion comes just after date of birth
And everybody gets a tongue to speak
And everyone hears an inner voice
A day at the end of the week to wonder and rejoice

If the answer is infinite light, why do we sleep in the dark?

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
How can you tap your body?
Why do you cover your hand?
How can you eat from a rice bowl
When the holy man breaks bread?
We watched the fireworks till they were fireflies
Followed a path of stars over the endless skies

[Chorus]

[Outro]
I've been given all I wanted
All the three generations of the book
I've harvested and I've planted
I'm wearing my father's old coat