Paul Simon, Father And Daughter (live), Symphony Hall, San Francisco, July 21, 2025 (4K)

Описание: Paul Simon performs his song "Father And Daughter" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California on July 21, 2025. Simon wrote Father And Daughter for the animated film The Wild Thornberrys Movie in 2002 and later released a different version on his 11th studio album, Surprise (2006). The song--which was inspired by Simon's then 7 year old daughter Lulu and featured his then 10 year son Adrian on harmony vocals--was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. This was one of the final nights of the A Quiet Celebration Tour, which will wrap up in Seattle on August 6 at McCaw Hall.

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Father And Daughter lyrics:

If you leap awake in the mirror of a bad dream
And for a fraction of a second, you can’t remember where you are
Just open your window and follow your memory upstream
To the meadow in the mountain where we counted every falling star

I believe the light that shines on you will shine on you forever
And though I can’t guarantee there’s nothing scary hiding under your bed
I’m gonna stand guard like a postcard of a golden retriever
And never leave ‘til I leave you with a sweet dream in your head

I’m gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you’ll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Who loved his daughter more than I love you

Trust your intuition
It’s just like goin’ fishin’
You cast your line and hope you get a bite
But you don’t need to waste your time
Worryin’ about the marketplace
Try to help the human race
Struggling to survive its harshest night

I’m gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you’ll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Who loved his daughter more than I love you

I’m gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you’ll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Loved his daughter more than I love you

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Paul Simon official bio:

During his distinguished career spanning seven decades, Paul Simon has produced an unparalleled body of work including timeless masterpieces, such as Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sounds of Silence, and Graceland. Venerated as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and “popular music’s premier poet of the human condition,” Simon has received 16 Grammy Awards and has been twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, and was presented the Library of Congress’ inaugural Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, which recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world’s culture.

Simon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011, and in 2012 named laureate of the prestigious Polar Music Prize along with Yo-Yo Ma. In 2019, Paul Simon was the first musician to be presented the Great Americans Medal by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. His song “Mrs. Robinson,” from the film The Graduate, was named in the top ten of the AFI’s 100 Years, 100 Songs.

In 2023, Simon released his ambitious and widely acclaimed 33-minute, seven-movement masterwork, Seven Psalms, which earned him his 36th Grammy nomination and topped critics’ Album of the Year lists – lauded as “A masterpiece” by MOJO’s David Fricke, and “Profound” by The Times of London. Simon’s journey through the making of Seven Psalms is featured in director Alex Gibney’s career-spanning documentary, In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.

It was during the recording of Seven Psalms that Simon began to steadily lose the hearing in his left ear which initially made extended live performances impossible. Together with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, and his own production team, Simon redesigned his entire stage set up to make performing viable.

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A Quiet Celebration live tour dates:

April 4-5 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
April 8, 10, 11 – Austin, TX @ Bass Concert Hall
April 14, 16, 17 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
April 20, 22, 23 – Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
April 26 – Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theatre
April 28-29 – St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre
May 7-8 – Dallas, TX @ AT&T Winspear Opera House
May 11, 13, 14 – Nashville, TN @ The Ryman
May 17-18 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theatre
May 21, 23, 24 – Chicago, IL @ Symphony Center
May 27, 29, 30 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
June 4, 6, 7 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
June 10, 12, 13 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center-Wang Theatre
June 16, 18, 20, 21, 23 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
June 26, 28, 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Academy of Music
July 7 – Long Beach, CA @ Terrace Theater
July 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Disney Hall
July 19, 21, 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Davies Symphony Hall
July 25, 26, 28 – Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum
July 31, August 2, 3 – Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall
August 5, 6 – Seattle, WA @ McCaw Hall