The Sound of Silence, or Visiting Berlin

in voilk •  9 days ago

    Good evening stranger,
    thanks for visiting me once again.
    Get comfortable near the campfire, the night is windy and you will get a cold if you don't take your seat. I was just about to remember a melancholic memory of mines. Have you heard of the song The Sound of Silence? It's very famous.

    Maybe you never gave it a second thought on the pictures it portrays, but this was the recurring thought in my hike today, and I'd like to share it with you.

    Enjoy the ride.

    Hello darkness, my old friend
    I've come to talk with you again

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    Because a vision softly creeping

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    Left its seeds while I was sleeping
    And the vision that was planted in my brain
    Still remains
    Within the sound of silence

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    In restless dreams, I walked alone
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    Narrow streets of cobblestone

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    '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

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    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
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    "Fools" said I, "You do not know
    Silence like a cancer grows
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    Hear my words that I might teach you
    Take my arms that I might reach you"
    But my words, like silent raindrops fell

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    And echoed in the wells of silence

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    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
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    Then the sign said, "The words on the prophets are written on the subway walls.
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    In tenement halls"

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    And whispered in the sound of silence

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    It's time to go now, thanks for your company.

    Farewell, stranger

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