标题: 寂静之声The Sound Of Silence《毕业生》插曲 [打印本页] 作者: 蜀峰 时间: 2017-2-17 16:35 标题: 寂静之声The Sound Of Silence《毕业生》插曲 [attach]4569[/attach]
在西方的流行音乐狂潮般涌入的今天，我想能真正深刻影响大学生的大概仍是70年代”卡朋特兄妹”、老鹰、约翰丹佛的歌曲，那些经典的、抒情的老歌、慢歌，像《Yesterday Once More》、《Sound of Silence》、《Scarborough Fair》、《Country Road》、《Hotel California》、《Five Hundred Miles》等等。其中曾经荣获过16项格莱美大奖的法国老牌歌手保罗西蒙以其明显的民谣风格深深打动了我。
和很多人一样，头回听他的歌是寂静之声（Sound of Silence），虽然光碟质量引起音质不佳，但仍掩盖不住那优美的旋律与和声，亦真亦幻的歌词，烘托出一种别致的意境，体现了都市人海中的孤独心情，这是不多的听第一遍就可以打动人，而多年后仍可以使听者动容的歌曲。就这样，《寂静之声》使我开始认识西蒙。
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歌词：
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.