Paul Simon's "Graceland" is an "I Am" song--it's rueful and amused and optimistic. It is a grownup pop song. Like any artist, Simon sees the dissolution of a marriage as an opportunity. He takes a *literal* journey (to the South) while also taking an "inner" journey (to the truth or something like the truth). The external world is an echo of the interior world. When Simon alludes to "the cradle of the Civil War," he is talking about Abraham Lincoln, but he is also talking about the civil war that was his marriage, and he is talking about the war within his own soul. Writing without self-pity, Simon notices something funny about Carrie Fisher: She comes back to tell me she's gone. As if I didn't know that! As if I didn't know my own bed. As if I never noticed-- The way she brushed her hair from her forehead. (For the next several years, Fisher and Simon will continue to send mixed signals to each other. One will always be trou...