This is the song that we listened last week to start working in its interesting content. I told you: we will sing it of course ;-) It's a classic pop song by Simon & Garfunkel, composed in 1966. We could learn a lot of interesting things with this nice song like, for example, the simple polyphony with two voices, the relation between lyrics and music, the poetic expression...
Here you have the lyrics with the activities that you must do in your music notebook, and a video-karaoke to start singing by yourself.
"The sound of silence"
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 streetlamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light,
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
to stir the sound of silence.
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 streetlamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light,
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
to stir 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.
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.
4.- What are your favourite verses?. Why?
5.- Read this paragraph again: People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never shared. What do you think?. Which is the meaning?
6.- What do you think about the meanings of the expression "the sound of silence" in this song?
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