I've always wondered and can't find the lyrics cause I don't know the name of the song.
2006-07-17 09:00:34 · 4 answers · asked by tamtamgp7 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
my sweet imagination
everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
2006-07-17 09:04:40 · answer #1 · answered by Samuel C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
Everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Uhm uhm!
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
O.K.!
© Paul Simon - Paul Simon: 1964-1993 (3-CD Box Set), 1993 Warner
2006-07-17 16:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by k m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
(He learned to think 'outside of the box" by philosiphising with other artists and slackers in High school. Having learned to view things artistically through a camera lens has opened his horizon and helps him to 'see' the bigger picture.)
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
(This is his vision of art and how he relates to the world, enjoying capturing the colors. He would hate to lose that medium, because it has affected how he views the world. He finds it tolerable through the lens. His line "Mama don't take" alludes to how vulnerable he would feel without his camera, lost and childlike)
If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
my sweet imagination
everything looks worse in black and white
(An illistration of how much he likes his chosen medium, photography. He compares them to all the women he has known, and that they don't add up to what he can imagine he can do with his camera. Women are black-and-white, cut-and-dry, memories of them are either really good or really bad, often both good and bad, hence black and white. He can have color with the camera, lending to a visualisation of having more than just good and bad memories, hence everything looking 'worse' in black and white.)
2006-07-17 16:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by sawtooth_honey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
something about Kodachrome?
I know it was a Nikon camera, right?
2006-07-17 16:01:52 · answer #4 · answered by Zippy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋