![]() If you have no idea who Kathy is (I Googled her because she features rather prominently in Simon's writings), then this is a beautiful love song. ![]() It is night time in ordinary England for ordinary Kathy but on the way to exciting Michigan, the day is nowhere near over for the thoughtful and almost desperate Paul Simon.Īnyway, that's my interpretation. Whilst it might seem that she has merely become tired on this trip, what is actually happening (in my head, anyway), is Simon is yearning for her but, due to the time difference, she is sleeping. "Though I knew she was sleeping," is, to me, the most obvious. "I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine." Whilst Simon is on his travels and all the way to America, she is at home, minding her own business, reading a magazine. "Kathy, I sit" is him recounting his travels to her, action by action, in hope that she will respond and be interested. We can tell he missed Kathy who wasn't with him by the desperate phrases he uses - "Kathy, I'm lost," for example.īack to my point: Kathy is not with him. He was going back to America (perhaps with Art as it mentions two people in the song) on a train. Simon, on the other hand, wanted bigger things. She was ordinary Kathy from round the corner. She didn't want to be anything extraordinary. In fact, she refused to talk to the media about him and refused to attend the re-opening of the train stop where Simon wrote Homeward Bound. However, she didn't want to know him when he was famous. Kathy is Paul's lover who he met in England. ![]() Paul mentions Kathy and, whilst it might seem like the way he is talking sounds like he's with her, if we delve deeper we could see that she isn't. To me, Kathy is not with Paul in this song. ![]()
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