SIMON & GARFUNKEL - THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

“The Sounds of Silence” foi a música que levou Simon e Garfunkel à fama. Foi escrita em fevereiro de 1964 por Paul Simon como uma reflexão sobre o assassinato de Presidente John F. Kennedy. Simon concebeu-a como um modo de capturar o trauma emocional sentido por muitos americanos.

A música foi originalmente chamada “The Sounds of Silence”. É titulada dessa maneira nos primeiros LPs nos quais se apareceu e no compacto. Em compilações posteriores, foi intitulado novamente “The Sound of Silence.” Ambas as formas, o singular e o plural, aparecem nas letras.

Foi executada três vezes no filme “A Primeira Noite de um Homem”; no drama japonês “Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu”; na comédia Old School; em “Watchmen” e no filme “Bobby” é fundo musical durante o discurso de de vitória de Robert Kennedy no Ambassador Hotel, de onde Bob saiu para ser assassinado.

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 deared
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 signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.

And whispered in the sounds of silence.