Kodachrome

En del budskap man möter under promenader på stan
gör ett minst sagt förvirrat intryck. Andra innehåller
ett uns av sanning.
Det får mig att tänka på kodakchrome - forna tiders diafilm
med starka färger som gjorde verkligheten lite färggladare.
Paul Simon skrev en låt i ämnet:
"When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
my sweet imagination
everything looks WORSE in black and white".

Fast det sista håller jag nog inte riktigt med.
Dessutom har jag har hittat följande kommentar på
www.songfacts.com:
Simon sometimes sings the line "Everything looks worse
in black and white" to "Everything looks better in black and
white." He changes it a lot, and claims he can't remember
which way he wrote it.
Låten finns med på albumet "There Goes Rhymin' Simon"
från 1973.