The Sound of Silence - Original recording by Simon & Garfunkel

«The Sound of Silence» was originally recorded in 1964 by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel and was included on their debut album: «Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M» titled as «The Sounds of Silence» Released in October 1964 the album was a commercial failure at first, but in spring 1965 the song began to attract growing airplay at radio stations. This led to the remix of the track, but still, that first recording by Simon & Garfunkel in 1964 is widely regarded to be its best version. Scenes in the video are from the film: «Watchmen» wherein the song played. Lyrics: 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 no one dare disturb the sound of silence. Fools, said I, you don’t 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.