Simon & Garfunkel - Blessed Lyrics

This is such an underrated song, I can't believe it's not more popular than it is.

Damn, this song is blasphemous. I love it!

Badass tune

Very 1960's music production....jingly jangly like the Byrds.....but has a Beatles flavour too.

When your pissa is TOO ZOGGY

Okay, this is epic

My favorite line from this song is, "Blessed is the church service, makes me nervous." It reminds of something my sister said that was very similar.

This song feels so nostalgic, but I can’t put my finger on where it could be from. It’s an overall great song, but part of me still feels like this is from something I haven’t known in a long time.

Blessed is the church service, makes me nervous.

Don't like this version. Too pop for my taste. They do a better version which has been slowed down giving it more depth and feeling.

Dwight Schrute ur show
Is over get out

People are saying this song is some sort of worship song, but a lot of it seems to be something a person might say while struggling with deconverting from Christianity. Not surprised by these other comments though, people are heavily affected by conformation bias. "a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest..."

but, one day, people are going to have to accept how mentally destructive Christianity can be. And that's really what this song is about.

I think you've tended your own garden way too long ;)

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ !!!
great music Simon & Garfunkle

Vastly underrated track. I love it

I always saw this song as a scathing send-up of Christianity.

…. no, Christ on the cross cries, "Father, why have you forsaken me?" …. yes even Christ in His moment of glory had doubt …. so if it's ok for the Son of God to have doubt …. it's ok for you too ….. it's the human condition and its path to salvation…. via the 'cross' - Christ.

Beautiful, such an underrated song

Awesome thanks!

I think the last words are, "I have tended my own garden much too long", which seems to imply that he needs to tend God's garden. Anyone who seeks God will find Him. "Seek after me and you will find me, if you shall seek me with all of your heart."

I actually take this in the opposite direction, he sees taking care of his garden as attending church and going to heaven, but he realizes he has not taken care of his actual life, and decides to move on.

I think it's intended as the opposite of Song of Songs 1:6: "...my own vineyard I have neglected."

I agree with your interpretation - the words describe those on the margins of society - those whom Jesus came to save, suggesting that we should be as compassionate as possible as indeed God is

I interpreted it as a narrcisist tending to himself for far too long and not putting his time into others on this mortal realm. But maybe thats just me.

This Bible quote starts with words Jesus spoke in the book of Matthew, the sermon on the mount. Since Paul Simon was raised in the Jewish faith, I think he was not saying   these words as some concrete statement. Both men went to Jewish private school,  so the randomness of the lyrics could just be musings(?) (Jesus cried out, "Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me?" on the cross, then died and made a way to heaven for ALL, even "cheap hookers, dirty lookers, evil tookers!"

They reference Jesus in other songs which I find weird granted they are both Jews

The Christmas song Paul Simon recorded a few years back had a recording of a black preacher in the background. I heard Paul Simon giving a lesson to a room full of people about writing music and he laughed a little and credited God with his talent, (which he had thought came from his own self for many years).

well Jesus was Jewish

A "completed" Jew!

abbas is a whore

True to words!

0:49 'I have no testicle'?..

+l'Homme d'Après Demain "I have no place to go" lol

+l'Homme d'Après Demain"I have tended my own garden much too long."

This song is about sinners. Possibly trying to find themselves but they are lost in the world.

Seth, the reward of the prophets is the blessing, not the suffering. I would hate to think that God had no more to offer than suffering itself. It sounds better than it is, because if all we have to look forward to is suffering itself, who can bear that? We need hope, especially that evil does not triumph forever.

This showed up in a list of recommended videos while I was listening to a young man be interviewed about why he left Calvinism. It showed up in the bottom half or so, where the suggestions are that are supposed to be either threatening or destructive to faith. I had this record back in the day, so I decided to answer this:

When Jesus said that people who were persecuted for righteousness' sake, or who endure other suffering for His name's sake, were "blessed", He was not saying that their blessing was the suffering itself. He said they were blessed because this is how the true prophets were treated. What He said lines up with the other places in the Bible where suffering for God's righteousness is shown to paradoxically provide blessing. For one, it is far better to be the victim of the wicked, than to be the wicked who victimize. It is better to have a few morsels, and peace, than to share a stalled ox with the wicked. It IS better, and it becomes more and more apparent, as the world descends into worse and deepening moral insanity, increasingly loving cruelty and murder, that to choose the path of spiritual blessing over siding with worldly power against God, is wise, the other incredibly foolish. I WOULDN'T rather be a merciless human bird of prey, than the victim of one, and I do not believe the lie that such wicked, human predation is just "nature taking its course". There are quite a few things that are not happening at the zoo, until the people show up and bring them with them. See, the spat upon, ratted on, those who receive these things because they trust Jesus, are not blessed by the treachery and cruelty that they receive from man, but by the faithfulness and goodness of God, whom we can call Abba, Father—whom we at least part of the time experience. That is the blessing, not the ill treatment by evil men.

@Seth Lubic"It IS better, and it becomes more and more apparent, as the world descends into worse and deepening moral insanity, increasingly loving cruelty and murder, that to choose the path of spiritual blessing over siding with worldly power against God, is wise, the other incredibly foolish."

Made perfect sense to me :P

@Seth Lubic You've gotta good point, i'm used to reading extremely long sentences that are a flow of consciousness, however the "is wise" is quite unnecessary !
[Who the hell actually decides to 'side with worldly power against God' . . ?? . . what exactly is worldly power and how does that compare ?!? ]

Mcfirefly2 ws

overproduced. acoustic is much better

Julian Whitbred umm, nah. YOU'RE overproduced. 😂

Yeah, You tell Paul how to write a song, asshole

Whichever version you hear first you usually like best

I am blessed! :)

this desrves so many more views how are they not etter than modern artists

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I wish I would hear this more.