電影 “ 畢業生 ”相信很多人還記得吧！！！ 這首動人主題曲把電影烘托得更是動容！！！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 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 up to 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 whisper’d in the sounds of silence.暗夜，我的老友我又來找你聊聊了因為有個異象輕輕爬過趁我睡著時偷偷留下了種籽而這個種在我腦海裡的異象到現在還留存著... 在沈默之聲裡無數輾轉的夢中我獨行在狹窄街道的圓石路上街燈渲出的光暈將我籠罩夜的溼冷讓我豎起衣領無比刺眼的是閃亮的霓虹燈光劃破夜空... 也觸動了沈默之聲在裸燈清晰的照亮中我看見上萬的人們，或許還不止他們交談著卻沒有真正說話他們聽到聲音卻沒有真正傾聽他們寫著一些沒有傳達任何心聲的歌曲而也沒有人敢去... 驚擾沈默之聲我說：「愚蠢的人啊，你們不知道沈默會像癌細胞那樣生長蔓延聽我的話我才能教你拉我的手我才能救你」但是我的話語就像無聲落下的雨滴迴響在... 沈默的深井裡對著自己手造的霓虹神像人們虔誠地跪拜禱告然而警訊已經閃現在慢慢成形的話語裡警訊寫著：「先知的話語是寫在地鐵的牆上以及出租公寓的大廳裡」也輕聲細語... 在各種沈默之聲裡
◎ 有關 Sound of Silence ◎
感謝 Michaelwu30 協尋歌詞及提供此段注釋Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again, 作者把黑暗形容為自己的老朋友，暗指自己向來孤獨（可能是因為想法與社會一般人不同）。a vision softly creeping, 悄悄到來的異象（願景）。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. 主要子句是第一句I_walked_alone....這裡描寫眼睛被劃過夜空的霓虹燈的光線所刺射，由於霓虹燈在夜中閃爍，因此被形容成是碰觸寂靜的聲音。cobblestone 圓石所鋪成的路（舊時的「馬」路）naked light (指的應該是上一段所描述的霓虹燈光）沒有遮掩因而刺眼的光，常常也指大白天。 no one dared Disturb the sound of silence Silence沈默在這首歌裡指的是社會上對於一些不良或不公義的現象的不知不覺或不敢發聲，它也指社會因而形成的一種壓抑的力量，一種主流。因此歌會從夢、異象等孤獨的意象開始唱起。當主流社會一片沈默之聲時，要挺身發言的先知肯定是孤獨的，因為鮮少有人敢向社會挑戰，去打破沈寂。People writing songs that voices never share 人們寫歌但是卻是沒有聲音的歌。Take my arms that I might reach you 拉我的手我才可能搆到你（救你）。the people bowed and prayed/ To the neon god they made 舊約聖經描寫摩西領猶太人出埃及要往上帝所應允的迦南美地，路中摩西上西乃山領取上帝的十誡與祝福時，他的兄弟亞倫與猶太人民因失去信心與耐心所以造了一個金牛犢偶像來代替上帝。這裡Paul_Simon引用聖經典故，指責現代資本主義社會是追求眩目的物質享受（neon_god）。
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