Lyrics by：Paul Simon

Composed by：Paul Simon

Hello darkness my old friend

你好 黑暗 我的老朋友

I've come to talk with you again

我又來找你聊天了

Because a vision softly creeping

因?yàn)橛幸环N幻覺正向悄悄地向我襲來

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

在我熟睡的時候播下了種子

And the vision that was planted in my brain

這種幻覺在我的腦海里生根發(fā)芽

Still remains within the sound of silence

伴隨著寂靜的聲音縈繞盤旋不去

In restless dreams I walked alone

在不安的夢幻中我獨(dú)自行走

Narrow streets of cobblestone

行走在鵝卵石鋪成狹窄街道上

'Neath the halo of a street lamp

頭頂上街燈的光暈將我籠罩

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

我豎起衣領(lǐng)以抗御這濕冷的夜

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

當(dāng)我的眼睛為刺眼的霓虹燈閃爍所迷時

That split the night and touched the sound of silence

霓虹燈的閃爍也劃破了夜空 打破了黑夜的沉靜

And in the naked light I saw

在無遮燈照耀下我看到

Ten thousand people maybe more

人頭攢動

People talking without speaking

有的人在說著無聊的話語

People hearing without listening

有的人在漫不經(jīng)心的聽著別人說

People writing songs that voices never shared

有的人在寫著那些從不會被傳唱的歌

And no one dared disturb the sound of silence

但沒有人敢于去打破這份靜默

Fools said I you do not know

我說：愚蠢的人啊 你們不知道

Silence like a cancer grows

寂靜如同頑疾滋長

Hear my words that I might teach you

聽我的話 我才能教導(dǎo)你

Take my arms that I might reach you

抓緊我的手 我才能救你

But my words like silent raindrops fell

但是我的話卻如寂靜無聲的雨點(diǎn)落下

And echoed in the wells of silence

徒然回響在沉靜的井里

And the people bowed and prayed

人們?nèi)匀豁敹Y膜拜著

To the neon God they made

自己塑造的霓虹燈神文明

And the sign flashed out its warning

霓虹燈(文明)以它閃爍的文字顯出其預(yù)兆

In the words that it was forming

警告的話語漸漸成型

And the sign said

預(yù)兆顯示:先知的話語

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

已被寫在地鐵的墻上以及出租公寓的走廊上

And tenement halls and whispered in the sound of silence

也在無聲的靜默中被輕聲傳送