The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel - Piano solo arrangement

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The message of ”The Sound Of Silence” draws heart breaking picture of loneliness and depression. Still, decades after its release the message is very current: ”—And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made —” So I’d say the song - today - is about the addiction to mobile devices and alienation caused by it.

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 shared. 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. Then the sign said, ”The words on the prophets are written on the subway walls. In tenement halls”, and whispered in the sound of silence.