The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
The lyrics are on the video, so I won't post them again.
To me, this song is about peple in a hurry, carrying out their daily routines, because they do it automatically. All of them have a nobler goal in the back of ther minds, but nobody ever focuses on it. Hence "writing songs that voices never share". The progression from cobblestones to neon lights symbolizes the progress of civilization; the cobblestones of Europe to the neon lights of New York. You know how in a dream, you can never shout? That's the line "my words like silent raindrops fell". Our narrator has admitted that it's a dream, a vision. He tries to warn them... but they are just out of reach. And in all our progress, true silence has become so rare that it is a myth.
Probably all balderdash, but it's not bad for seat-of-the-pants interpretation. I am still clueless about the last verse.
Thoughts?
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