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Shilpa KarhikSounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
May 30th 2008 07:19
Sounds of Silence
by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence with lyrics
Review in Poem by Dexter
Loneliness haunts a discomforted happiness,
A disconnected society, ignores those around,
Internal pain ravages, voices inside the mind scream,
The lips never form words, only sorrowful silence.
The wisdom of free thought,
Attacked by yearning for companionship,
The external acknowledgment of existence slips.
Prisoners of our own microcosm,
Unwilling to address those nameless faces,
Trust and empathy is replaced with self obsessed involvement.
We suffer alone, in the dark, in silence…
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