Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
This track about the inability of people to communicate emotionally, was thought by many to be a response to the Kennedy assassination as it was written during the same time and then released three months later in 1964. Simon’s biographer Robert Hilton describes Simon locking himself in his family’s...
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
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 shared
And no one dared disturb the sound of silence
[Verse 4]
"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
[Verse 5]
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 sound of silence"
The Sound of Silence was written by Paul Simon.
The Sound of Silence was produced by Tom Wilson.
Simon & Garfunkel released The Sound of Silence on Mon Oct 19 1964.
Many people, including Paul Simon himself say yes, it is.
A way to protect one from the cold. The lyricist is creating a picture of darkness and cold, in contrast to the neon light that will appear in the next lines.
The song was written 38 years before 9/11 (2001). Absolutely no connection!