It was a slow day
And the sun was beating on the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radioThese are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder and don't cry baby don't cry don't cry
It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert and it curled into the circle of birth
And the dead sand
Falling on the children
The mothers and the fathers and the automatic Earth
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder and don't cry baby don't cry don't cry
It's a turn-around jump shot it's everybody jump start
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
Think of the boy in the bubble and the baby with the baboon heart and I believe
These are days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long-distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all, whoa yeah
The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder and don't cry baby don't cry don't cry don't cry
- Paul Simon
"The Boy in the Bubble"
Graceland (1986)