Songtext Red rubber ball Simon & Garfunkel

Red rubber ball

From the January 22, 1967 concert at Lincoln Center

Art: "I imagine most of you know that these are all Paul Simon songs that we're singing. There is, um, amongst the twenty-three or twenty-four songs that Paul has written, there is one that we have never recorded, it's about the only one, and a group called the Cyrkle, uh, beat us to it, recorded it, and sold 890,000 copies of it, called 'Red Rubber Ball.'"

I should have known you'd bid me farewell
There's a lesson to be learned from this and I've learned it very well
Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea
If I never hear your name again, it's all the same to me

And I think it's gonna be all right
Yeah, the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball

You never care for secrets I confide
To you, I'm just an ornament, something for your pride
Always running, never caring, that's the life you live
Stolen minutes of your time were all you had to give

And I think it's gonna be all right
Yeah, the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball

The story's in the past with nothing to recall
I've got my life to live, and I don't need you at all
The roller coaster ride we took is nearly at an end
I bought my tickets with my tears, that's all I'm gonna spend

And I think it's gonna be all right
Yeah, the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball

And I think it's gonna be all right
Yeah, the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball
It's bouncing and it's shining like a red rubber ball