The Paul Simon hit American Tune was a moving account of immigrants to America. The lyrics are brilliant and searing and come forward to speak to Americans today. Our dilemmas of anxiety and depression have a grip on us. We react like all human beings do with a variety of ways to defend ourselves from the uncertainty, the fear that things are spinning out of control, to use the other Paul Simon lyrics, ‘slip sliding away.’ And we wonder how it all went so wrong.
And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
or driven to its knees
But it’s all right, it’s all right
We’ve lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
we’re traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what went wrong
