Simon and Garfunkel

  Love Song/Poem Assignment. 

                Nikki

Cecilia

by Simon and Garfunkel

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart 

You're shaking my confidence daily 

Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees 

I'm begging you please to come home 

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart 

You're shaking my confidence daily 

Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees 

I'm begging you please to come home 

Come on home 

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia 

Up in my bedroom (making love) 

I got up to wash my face 

When I come back to bed 

Someone's taken my place 

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart 

You're shaking my confidence daily 

Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees 

I'm begging you please to come home 

Come on home 

Jubilation, she loves me again, 

I fall on the floor and I'm laughing, 

Jubilation, she loves me again, 

I fall on the floor and I'm laughing

This song represents a bad idealization of what love is. In this song, it is depicted as love is the end all salvation that will bring happiness. For example in the first verse, the person is stating that their “confidence is shaking daily” which means that he constantly feels bad about not being loved by this woman, Cecilia. But in reality, you should feel unhappy to some extent, but should never let love control your life to the extent of breaking down your confidence. A good factor in this song is that he is stating that he is unhapy with the woman, rather than letting her cheat on him at free will.