Hello Darkness My Old Friend Time to Get Diamond Again Because

Lirik lagu "The Sound of Silence" sangat menyentuh. Paul Simon menuliskannya beberapa bulan antara tahun 1963-1964 ketika berusia 22 tahun.

Penulis lagu dan penyanyi dengan tinggi 1,55 meter yang lahir 13 Oktober 1941 di Newark, New Bailiwick of jersey, boleh jadi menulis lagu yang sangat populer itu terpengaruh oleh peristiwa penembakan John F Kennedy dan masa perang Vietnam.

Tak seperti Bob Dylan yang melantunkan lagu-lagu protes sosial dan anti perang dengan lantang, Paul Simon dan Art Garfunkel berdendang dengan kelembutan dan agak melankoli. Paul Simon bertekad tidak akan mengikuti karakter dan gaya penyanyi yang dia kagumi itu.

Martin Luther King pernah berujar: "In the finish, we will remember not the words of our enemies,but the silence of our friends." Apakah Paul Simon membawa kegundahan Martin Luther Rex The Sound of Silence? Entahlah.

Versi asli The Sound of Silence yang tercantum dalam anthology perdana Simon & Garfunkel "Wednesday Morning 3AM" (dirilis Oktober 1964) bisa diunduh di https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

Lirik the Sound of Silence seolah-olah hadir di malam yang hening ini. Ketika setiap hari mendengar dan membaca pernyataan para politisi.

Bicara tetapi tidak mencerahkan

Mendengar tetapi tidak mendengarkan

Bertindak tetapi tidak memperjuangkan

Melangkah tetapi tidak jelas arah

Berjani tetapi beda pelaksanaan

Terima kasih kepada Attar yang telah menguakkan ingat-ingatan ayah kembali atas lagu-lagu Simon & Garfunkel malam tadi, yang menghadirkan cermin untuk memahami kondisi negeri dengan lebih baik.

"The Audio Of Silence"

Howdy darkness, my old friend,
I've come up 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 encephalon
Still remains
Inside 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 past the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
X grand 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 practice not know –
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you.
Take my artillery that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops vicious
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.

Diterbitkan oleh faisal basri

Faisal Basri is currently senior lecturer at the Faculty of Economic science, University of Indonesia and Chief of Advisory Board of Indonesia Research & Strategic Analysis (IRSA). His area of expertise and subject covers Economics, Political Economic system, and Economic Development. His prior engagement includes Economic Adviser to the President of Republic of Indonesia on economic affairs (2000); Head of the Section of Economics and Development Studies, Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1995-98); and Director of Institute for Economic and Social Research at the Faculty of Economics at the Academy of Indonesia (1993-1995), the Commissioner of the Supervisory Commission for Business Competition (2000-2006); Rector, Perbanas Concern School (1999-2003). He was the founder of the National Mandate Party where he was served in the Party as the first Secretary General and and then the Deputy Chairman responsible for inquiry and evolution. He quit the Party in Jan 2001. He has actively been involved in several NGOs, amidst others is The Indonesian Move. Faisal Basri was educated at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia where he received his BA in 1985 and graduated with an MA in economics from Vanderbilt University, USA, in 1988. Lihat semua pos dari faisal basri

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