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Album: Sounds of Silence
Genre: Folk Rock
Writer: Paul Simon
Released: September, 1965
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With The Sounds of Silence the American duo Simon and Garfunkel got their biggest recognition. The song was written by Paul Simon as a way of capturing the emotional trauma felt by the majority of Americans when the President John F. Kennedy was killed on 22nd November, 1963. Simon & Garfunkel were ranked #40 on 2004 Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artist of All Time. During 2007, they were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007. On March 25, 2008, it was released a live material titled Live 1969 which included songs like: 59th Street Bridge Song, Mrs. Robinson, Bridge over Troubled Water, I Am a Rock, Kathy’s Song, For Emily, Whenever and Why Don’t You Write Me.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come with 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 lit 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 shared,
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

Fool, said I, you do not know,
Silence, like a cancer grows
Hear my words and I might teach you,
Take my arms then 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’d made
And the sign flashed 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.