The Sound of Silence / Nouela

Nouela Johnston은 뉴질랜드 출신의 호주 혼혈 여가수

노르웨이인 아버지와 한국인 어머니 사이에서 1983년 시애틀에서 출생.

The Sound of Silence

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 streetlamp
 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 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
 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”

Simon & Garfunkel