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 shared
And no one dared
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
Then the sign said, "The words on the prophets are written on the subway walls
In tenement halls"
And whispered in the sound of silence
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The Sound of Silence(寂靜之聲)是美國二重唱組合，Simon & Garfunkel的一首歌曲，由保羅·賽門創作，收錄於他們1964年的首張錄音室專輯《Wednesday Morning》中。這張專輯遭遇了商業失利，導致了二重唱的散夥。賽門去了英格蘭，而葛芬柯則入讀了哥倫比亞大學。
1965年春，這首歌開始在電台上播放。增長的播放量使製作人湯姆·威爾森決定將此歌重新混音，加入電聲樂器聲部。新版歌曲以單曲形式於1965年9月發行，隨後迅速地進入了排行榜。同年12月，該曲在美國公告牌百強單曲榜上登頂第一。它也在其他數個國家打入了榜單前十位，包括英國、澳大利亞、西德、愛爾蘭和日本等。Simon & Garfunkel因此重組，急忙錄製第二張錄音室專輯，並利用這首歌的成功將其命名為《Sounds of Silence》。
《The Sound of Silence》在多部電影中出現，包括1967年的《畢業生》和2009年的《守護者》。2004年，《滾石》雜誌在「史上最偉大的500首歌曲」榜單上將它列為第156位。2013年，它因「文化、歷史和審美方面的顯著成就」，被美國國會圖書館列入國家錄音登記部的保護名單。(以上資料出自維基百科)
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