这一周要给大家推荐的是一首老歌，是20世纪60年代民歌二人组合Paul Simon and Garfunkel的The sound of silence，中文译名寂静之声。这首歌出自1968年奥斯卡特级经典电影，影帝达斯汀·霍夫曼主演的《毕业生》，是60、70年代美国年轻人最喜爱看的电影之一。对于中国的80年代到90年代间的大学生说，这部电影几乎是他们接触西方文明和青年生活的窗口。自然这部电影优美而质朴的音乐也是令他们着迷的原因之一。

歌词：

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 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

And 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."