Simon and Garfunkel first made this song popular… Last night as I was driving my iTunes was on random and it came on. It took my breath away. The power of it. Recently Distrubed released a rendition that is stunning in its own right. With all that is going on in this world, this was just what I needed to hear and I think you will agree too…
If you listen to the words careful you will hear such great wisdom. I thought it would be an awesome lecture when I heard Disturbed, but now with the original I think it moreso.
SIMON & GARFUNKEL LYRICS
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 silenceIn restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp
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 silenceAnd 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
No one dare
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”
