The music (and harmony vocals) of Simon and Garfunkel is often considered to be so hauntingly beautiful, much of their output can really move one to tears.
* "Seven o'Clock News/Silent Night". There's just something in the juxtaposition of the calm and peaceful melody and all the violence in the news report.
* Just stop and really pay attention the next time you hear "The Sound of Silence".
* "Bridge Over Troubled Water" can absolutely kill some people (not literally), as does the beautiful cover version by Eva Cassidy.
* "Scarborough Fair" becomes really depressing when you listen to the lyrics and realise what it actually says. Sarah Brightman's version is particularly haunting.
* "Old Friends/Bookends" can bring a tear to many a person's eye -- and, as time goes on and
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| - The music (and harmony vocals) of Simon and Garfunkel is often considered to be so hauntingly beautiful, much of their output can really move one to tears.
* "Seven o'Clock News/Silent Night". There's just something in the juxtaposition of the calm and peaceful melody and all the violence in the news report.
* Just stop and really pay attention the next time you hear "The Sound of Silence".
* "Bridge Over Troubled Water" can absolutely kill some people (not literally), as does the beautiful cover version by Eva Cassidy.
* "Scarborough Fair" becomes really depressing when you listen to the lyrics and realise what it actually says. Sarah Brightman's version is particularly haunting.
* "Old Friends/Bookends" can bring a tear to many a person's eye -- and, as time goes on and
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| - The music (and harmony vocals) of Simon and Garfunkel is often considered to be so hauntingly beautiful, much of their output can really move one to tears.
* "Seven o'Clock News/Silent Night". There's just something in the juxtaposition of the calm and peaceful melody and all the violence in the news report.
* Just stop and really pay attention the next time you hear "The Sound of Silence".
* "Bridge Over Troubled Water" can absolutely kill some people (not literally), as does the beautiful cover version by Eva Cassidy.
* "Scarborough Fair" becomes really depressing when you listen to the lyrics and realise what it actually says. Sarah Brightman's version is particularly haunting.
* "Old Friends/Bookends" can bring a tear to many a person's eye -- and, as time goes on and he keeps getting older, it just gets sadder and sadder.
* "He Was My Brother", made worse by the fact that it's based on a true story.
* "The Boxer".
* "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her", especially the version found in their 1972 Greatest Hits album.
* "The Sun Is Burning".
* "Sparrow." My God, "Sparrow."
* "April Come She Will"
* Their version of Daniel Robles "El Condor Pasa".
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