Someone asked this before but everyone just said it's about The Graduate and I don't think that's true.
One person said it's about 'the death of innocence in America'. I think someone said to me once it's about a woman joining a cult. Anyone have any other ideas or care to elaborate? Even better, anyone care to provide a line-by-line analysis of the lyrics?
2006-09-13 05:52:15 · 11 answers · asked by DS 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Damnit, if you're just gonna say it's about The Graduate, point me to a link that proves it was specially written for the film, or explain how the lyrics even seem like they're about the film. I don't see any evidence that is true just cos it was used on the soundtrack
2006-09-13 06:02:12 · update #1
Other than the name, that is
2006-09-13 06:04:18 · update #2
Please stop just saying its about the Graduate, & explain how the lyrics relate, if that's what you think:
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,
Jesus loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please Mrs. Robinson.
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
We'd like to know a little bit about your for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself.
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes,
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.
Hide in the hiding place where no one ever goes.
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.
It's a little secret just the Robinsons' affair.
Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids.
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon.
Going to the candidate's debate.
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio,
Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson.
Jotting Joe has left and gone away
2006-09-13 08:51:40 · update #3
Hey David,
October has it mostly right. It is a song. It was written before the movie (The Graduate) and it is about losing the age of innocence in America and the world as well (Vietnam war). Mrs. Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft, seduces Dustin Hoffmans character in the Graduate as a metaphor for that loss of innocence. The song plays at the end of the movie. The song is from their album "These days and other thoughts". Several songs were featured in the movie.
Hope this helps,
James in San Diego
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UPDATE 9-14-06
David,
It wasn't written for the Graduate! It was written before the film. The films producers liked it so much that they included it in the movie (Even changing the name of the female lead to Mrs. Robinson). I said the song was to express lost innocence. If you review the lyrics, you will see how the idyllic early 60's turn into the troubled late 60's. It's very much about a family hiding a secret, it doesn't have to be a sexual one, any tabu secret. The reference to prayer and God are hopes that no one ever finds out the secret (Jesus loves you more than you will know..) The song tells how when the secret becomes known that their is the loss of innocence (Where have you gone? Joe DiMaggio...) This isn't Ayn Rands "Atlas Shrugged"... It's a simple song that has some lyrics that may not make sense, they are included just to be a song. If you had been born or alive during the 1960's the song and the movie would make much more sense to you. There was Vietnam and the failed Tiet Offensive, The Cuban Missel Crisis, the deaths of President Kennedy, Senator Kennedy and Martin Luther King, increased legal and illegal drug use, women's issues, Civil Rights and Gay issues All of this is from 1962-1969.
Spend sometime studying the culture and the headlines from that period of time, the song (and the movie) will make so much more sense to you.
James in San Diego
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2006-09-13 06:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by jpr_sd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs. Robinson who has been there and done that, decides to bring a young man up to speed as well. She chooses a young Jewish Virgin and proceeds to make a man out of him. He falls in love with her daughter and the war between him and her begins. In the end, he wins over everyone taking the daughter along with him as his prize.
2006-09-13 08:28:36 · answer #2 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs. Robinson is about a younger man and an older woman having an affair.
2006-09-13 06:04:51 · answer #3 · answered by fuzzylilhippiechick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The song was written long before the movie. The song is about the loss of American values using the metaphor of putting an old person in a elder care home.
2006-09-13 05:58:53 · answer #4 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Was written for the sound track of The Graduate. Was about a woman trying to seduce her daughters boyfriend.
2006-09-13 05:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by S G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watch the movie, "The Graduate". One of the films that made Dustin Hoffman's carreer.
2006-09-13 06:01:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs Robinson was based on a movie called the graduate ,http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/ here's a a load of information for you i hope it helps :0 )name,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel
2006-09-13 06:05:09 · answer #7 · answered by lilmrsgracefulone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is about the Graduate because it was the soundtrack for the movie, but- Jesus does love you more than you will know
2006-09-13 05:58:43 · answer #8 · answered by get_unlost 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a movie called the graduate that you can either buy or rent. i suggest you watch the movie
2006-09-13 05:56:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch the movie and you will find out.
2006-09-13 05:59:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋