Simon & Garfunkel: Cecelia Meaning

Song Released: 1970
Cecelia Lyrics
You’re shaking my confidence daily
Oh, cecilia, I’m down on my knees
I’m begging you please to come home
Celia, you’re breaking my heart
You’re shaking my confidence daily
Oh, cecilia, I’m down on my...
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#1 top rated interpretation:I found an interpretation on another website that gets the meaning of this song perfectly. I want him to get credit for his clever insight so have pasted his comments below:
This is just a theory, but it's a lot more poetic than the "cheating girlfriend" story. How many of Simon and Garfunkel's song's lyrics are so explicitly on the nose? Not many. St. Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians, so Simon is singing about having writer's block. Everything is going great (he's making love) and when he takes a short break (getting up to wash his face) he finds that his inspiration has left him. But it comes back.
- Keith Dennis, Portland, OR -
Cecilia was a character in the 1963
italian movie released in U.S.
as "The Empty Canvas". -
Saint Cecilia, the Patron Saint of music, has forsaken the writer. He has temporarily lost his muse, but she returns.
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Saint Cecilia, the Patron Saint of music, has forsaken the writer. He has temporarily lost his muse.
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Does anyone else feel he was going down on her, hence why he had to go wash his face?
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It's about St. Celelia. No one would put up with the other interpretation.
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I think the song is about a girlfriend whom he once loved and she cheated on him without him far away maybe it was a guy in the same town. When she releases her mistake he had moved on
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I've heard it interpreted that there is a dog involved... "I get up to wash my face, when I come back to bed someone's taken my place." Then directly after that line is a whistle...which sounds just like how you'd whistle for a dog. So...maybe he's makin' love, and he gets up, and it's just innocently the dog that hops into the bed and "takes his place," just like a dog might do.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Very obvious song -- it's about a guy who's come home to find his girlfriend fooling around on him -- yet again! Her assurance that she loves only him is painfully funny to him - he knows she's just going to fool around on him anyway.
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