Cover art for Overs by Simon & Garfunkel

Overs

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Apr. 3, 19681 viewer12.6K views

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Overs is the 4th track from Simon & Garfunkel’s 1968 album, Bookends. The song describes a relationship seemingly flattened by time, becoming shallow and void of previous excitement. Paul and Art sing about how the end of the relationship is coming eventually, even though the narrator keeps delaying taking that step.

In a 1968 appearance on Kraft Music Hall, Paul talks about Overs relative to ‘For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her,’ a track on Simon & Garfunkel’s 1966 record Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme. Paul says: “[For Emily] is a song about a belief, and Overs is about the loss of that belief.'

Overs is also thematically similar to another song from Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme, which is The Dangling Conversation. Both songs explore a relationship gone stale, although Overs does so in a more lighthearted, less dramatic fashion.

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Acoustic Guitar
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Columbia Studio A, New York City, NY (October 16, 1967)
Release Date
April 3, 1968
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