is awesome and I just learned that today, thanks), it just makes me think about trying to keep smiling when someone you love dies. And you don't care about what else is going on in the world, you just hope that wherever your loved one has ended up is a nice destination. It's bad form to write your own epitaph, so I hope Paul Simon will allow me the luxury of using everyone's favorite line from this song as mine. Half of the time we're gone, and we don't know where, and we don't know where. I know you've been eager to fly. General Comment: I just saw a recent live performance of this song on YouTube. Paul performs the song solo, with Art waiting at the side. Only to come out when the 'Aaaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah Here I Am' part is sung. I consider this as support of my idea that the 'Aaaaaaah Here I Am' part, with its dreamy arrangement and reverbed voice, is Paul hearing his friend's voice from afar, reassuring him that he's still there for him, the way it should be in any real friendship. I think Paul was very ambivalent at the time: *he* was the one who wanted Simon & Garfunkel to keep on doing what they were good at: creating great songs as a duo (BOTW is simply perfect). But Art left for Mexico for reasons pertaining to a solo (acting) career. So Paul must have felt abandoned by a friend, about whom