Hello darkness my old friend sound effect
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The cold chill runs up his back, so he lifts his collar to the "cold and damp." Just then, a blight neon sign lit up, showing that he, in fact, was not alone. Second stanza begins setting the scene in which the dream took place: at night, him walking along the cobblestone road where he stops below the light of a streetlight. So bad that the awful visions were still flashing before his eyes as he is awake. The first stanza Simon refers to darkness as being his "old friend" that he came to talk with because he was awoken in the middle of the night, of a nightmare that still lingers in his head, that gives his a considerable amount of distress. This may be coming from a generation to far into the distant future to understand the feelings of the time, but here it goes: Communist, anarchist, socialist, union organizers, and their sympathizers were blacklisted, and under surveillance of FBI, as well as civil rights activist. “ ()Īt that time, a years of McCarthyism were still fresh, and red scare was still very alive. Paul Simon was born 1941, and in an interview he says:”'The Sound Of Silence', which I wrote when I was 21, I never would have wrote it were it not for Bob Dylan. The song was written 1962 maybe '61, contrary to sources stating that it was written in '63, '64. People still blinded with false idols, money, and false promises, and empty dreams served by the mass media controlled by establishment and used to brainwash and control people.Īt the time the song was written, besides the mass media (TV, radio, and newspapers), the only way people could express their through was through graffiti ("The words of the prophets are Written on the subway walls And tenement halls), but they do not have impact on larger mass of people (And whispered in the sound of silence.") If nothing gets changed, and people keep complying, slowly they will get attuned to that and it will become even worse. He warns people about passiveness ("Fools", said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows). They have no courage to revolt against the system (And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence).Įven though not completely content with the system, and their lives, they would rather comply, and let other people rule them, than to try to change the system afraid to loose what they have. Although, they think about the problems, oppression, and injustice around them (People writing songs that voices never share) all they do is a small talk, an empty conversation (People talking without speaking People hearing without listening). He realizes, he is not alone who sees all that injustice, many more (Ten thousand people, maybe more) sees that, yet they never mention that nor they act upon that. People writing songs that voices never share He would like to scream, and do something (And touched the sound of silence), but still not there yet. The moment he completes the picture, the parts are connected and he has a clear vision the blinds on his eyes are finally off(“When my eyes were stabbed by The flash of a neon light That split the night). He feels like if he is the only one who sees that mass of oppressed people, and injustice toward them created by the system and establishment, yet he still ignores it (I turned my collar to the cold and damp).
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Halo-a ring of light around or above the head of a holy person-god, power, police, establishment The metaphor use in this part is very heavy, so I will try first to explain some of it.Ĭobblestone, paving stone tightly put together, and firmly depressed into ground-oppressed people with restricted rights
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Yet, although, he finally starts seeing the problem, and the cause, he still is not doing anything. “And the vision that was planted in my brain
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Slowly, from all those disconnected pixels of a world around him, he starts forming a bigger picture, a vision, when connected altogether. Seeing different types of oppression, and injustice over the time, while not understanding or not even trying to understand what is behind (while I was sleeping), he does nothing about it. Not clear what kind of a vision is he talking about, but from the rest of the song we can conclude it is about oppression, injustice, manipulation, and brainwashing. He feels alone with nobody to communicate his thoughts.