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Anonymous Wed Jan 14 14:37:29 2015 No.5998795 [DELETED]

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/mu/ has failed me, can you geniuses please tell me what these lyrics mean?

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 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 sound of silence.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 14:41:05 2015 No.5998814 Nuclear catastrophe.

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Anonymous Wed Jan 14 14:43:11 2015 No.5998827

>>5998795
It's about the coming age that the speaker feels is vapid and people aren't actually saying anything meaningful. The speaker still believes in some past age that remains within this hostile world of "silence". There is a little bit more to it, but that is the gist. Overall, it's an aesthetically pleasing song, but it isn't specific enough to harm the sensibilities of a wider audience. The writing, I would argue, is meant to be a bit vague so that people can transpose their own meanings onto it, which is an aesthetic in and of itself I suppose.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 14:44:11 2015 No.5998831 Didn't they say it's about the JFK assassination? How does that even make sense

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:17:31 2015 No.5999009 >>5998795 it's about a date gone wrong and he's walking home without a gf.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:30:32 2015 No.5999081 Erotic asphyxiation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:33:10 2015 No.5999093 File: 50 KB, 303x379, Derrida_main.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5998795 Anything

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:34:19 2015 No.5999097 >>5998814 this. /thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:34:38 2015 No.5999100 someone tell me what kashmir was about

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:35:48 2015 No.5999102 Simon himself said the song is about "man's inability to communicate with man". That's essentially it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:40:23 2015 No.5999124 >>5999102 what does that even mean? aren't we communicating right now?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 15:42:48 2015 No.5999134 >>5999100 An imaginary trip to Kashmir.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 16:57:03 2015 No.5999518 >>5999124 >>5999124 Yes. Silently. oh snap

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 16:58:45 2015 No.5999526 Technology and its affect on our interaction. Particularly television, now the net.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 17:05:38 2015 No.5999571 >>5999526 This song was made before the television m8

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Anonymous Wed Jan 14 17:13:48 2015 No.5999616

>>5999571
Jesus CHRIST. Come the fuck on. Even you stupid little kids can't be so fucking deranged as to think we didn't have TV in 1966. Can you? Can you actually be so fucking lobotomized and drooling-ass stupid as to be able to picture the 1950s without television sets in American living rooms? FUCK.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 17:16:55 2015 No.5999634 >>5999616 >little kids >ad homophone attacks on my age

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 17:27:13 2015 No.5999690 It doesn't mean anything, they are just trying to write song lyrics that sound cool.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 21:45:54 2015 No.6001207 >>5999616 Autism: the post

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 21:48:31 2015 No.6001221 >>5999616 Next you'll be claiming that Julius Caesar never ate corn on the cob.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 22:02:00 2015 No.6001286 >Neath the halo of a street lamp great line

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 22:25:15 2015 No.6001411 >tfw the point of poems and music is to project your own meaning onto them >tfw plebs don't understand and want everything explained to them >muh authors intent

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 22:27:23 2015 No.6001426 It's incredibly simple. It's about peoples' incapability to communicate meaningfully with each other.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 22:28:29 2015 No.6001431 >>5999102 Winner

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 14 22:33:09 2015 No.6001453 >>5998831 common misconception