Simon and Garfunkel - The sounds of silence (accoustic version)

2013/10/24

國中時學英文，課本無趣，英文歌曲有趣。幸好家中有幾張黑膠唱片（謝謝我父親），這是其中一張的「原味版」，我芽芽學英語的前幾首。

後續版本（包括後來兩位歌者拆夥後重新復合的世界巡迴演唱版）很多，但味道都不一樣。聽歌，我喜歡聽第一版的，剩下的版本都走了味。

剛剛我的後裔（女兒啦）介紹給我聽，心中感觸頗深。我呢沒什麼回報，給她講了一段「畢業生」電影在台灣所接受待遇的歷史。

1967年，畢業生（The graduate）因為違反善良風俗被禁播。




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 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
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