Doug’s reaction/analysis makes me want to dedicate this song to MN.
(meaningful communication)
8:40 - i differ with Doug wrt the singer’s “gruffness” toward the end of the song. i like it. it adds intensity.
it’s something so foreign to me, i could never sound like that! combined with his range, control, soft to gruff, impressive.
Doug Helvering / Classical Composer Reacts to Sound of Silence (Disturbed) | The Daily Doug (Episode 69) / -13min
The Sound of Silence / Song by / Simon & Garfunkel
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 streetlamp
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
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
In tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
Songwriters: Paul Simon. For non-commercial use only.
