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Paul Simon – Soft Parachutes (1980) | Track profile | Dork

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One-Trick Pony
Soft Parachutes

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Soft Parachutes

Release date: 12th August 1980

From One-Trick Pony

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About This Track

"Soft Parachutes" is a track by Paul Simon, from the album One-Trick Pony, released 12th August 1980. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Soft Parachutes

Soft parachutes

Fourth of July

Villages burning

Returning

The bodies all laid in a line

Like soft parachutes

Last year as a senior

In Emerson High school

I had me a girlfriend

We used to get high

Now I am flyin

Down some Vietnam highway

Don't ask me the reason

God only knows why

Soft parachutes

Fourth of July

Villages burning

Returning

The bodies all laid in a line

Like soft parachutes

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Track details

From One-Trick Pony

1980

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1980

—Long, Long Day
—That’s Why God Made the Movies
—Ace in the Hole
—Oh, Marion
—One-Trick Pony
—All Because of You
—God Bless the Absentee
—Jonah
—How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
—Nobody
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