올드팝에 한번이라도 관심을 가졌었던 사람이라면 한번쯤은 들어보았을 이름
Simon & Garfunkel, 사이먼 앤 가펑클 이다.
폴 사이먼은 앞서 포스팅한 we are the world 에도 참여 했었다.
둘이 만들어내는 화음은 아름다운 기타 선율과함께 어울려 최고의 음악을 만들어 냈다.
세월이 지났어도 눈을 감고 들어보면 아름다운 풍경이 펼쳐지는 노래이다.
먼저 The boxer
The boxer
I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles,
Such are promises, all lies and jest,
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmmmm
When I left my home and my family, I's no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station, runnin' scared, laying low,
Seeking out the poorer quarters, where the ragged people go,
Looking for the places only they would know.
Li la li...
Asking only workman's wages, I come lookin' for a job,
But I get no offers,
Just a come-on from the whores on 7th Avenue.
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there.
La la la...
Li la li...
And I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
goin' home
Where the New York City winters aren't bleedin' me, leadin' me,
goin' home.
In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him dow
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 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 deared
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 signs said, The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.
둘의 화음이 환상적이고 아름답지만.....
위 영상은 2003년에 했던 둘의 라이브 영상인데
둘의 화음이 예전처럼 잘 섞인다는 느낌보다는 약간 따로 논다는 느낌이 들어 아쉽다.
라고 생각하던 중
2009년영상에서....
The boxer의 화음이 잘 맞음을 볼수 있다...
역시... 아직 죽지 않았다!
