The Sound of Silence: a song for our times (cover of the original)

I've been thinking a lot about quality, art, and silence since joining Steem. It is so refreshing here, and it is doing incredible things for me compared to the utter chaos and noise of other social media.

This song is amazing, and was seriously written much more for us than the original audience. Mine is a cover of a cover (Brooke Fraser's version--also really worth watching.)

I know the sound isn't the best. I'm working on how to get better quality of both sound and video, but have finally learned that's it's more important just to start--otherwise you lose years waiting on perfectionism. Thanks for your grace as I work out the tech stuff (welcome to suggestions, as long as it's in tech-dumbie approved language!)

Here are the lyrics for those who maybe aren't as familiar (they stand alone even without the music as incredible poetry)

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

Thank you always for your support, in any way you can give it. The little artists can't do well without committed support from those who believe in us.

I also have free downloads of my own material available through my website.

Xx, Kay