Saturday, January 20, 2007

The Sounds of Silence

Well, I know im late. I saw a movie called graduate a coupla days back. Its a dustin hoffman movie and it was okay. But what caught me were the 2 sound tracks of the movie. One song is the sounds of silence. I jus loved the lyrics of the song. The lyrics goes this way
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 whisper'd in the sounds of silence.


Isnt that just beautiful? I just loved the song and now im adicted to it.

The other song of the track was scarborough fair. The genre is so damn soothing and beautiful. I loved that song too. And the 1st 4 lines goes this way.
Are you going to the scarborough fair
Parsley,sage, rosemary and thyme
remember me to those who is there
she once was a true love of mine

Simply beautiful aint it?Its by 2 guys called simon and garfunkel. They are mostly not alive now. But these songs are jus mind blowing!!

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