The Sound of Silence (Live on CONAN)

你好 黑暗 我的老朋友
Hello darkness my old friend
我又来与你交谈

因为有一种幻觉正向我悄然袭来
I've come to talk with you again
熟睡之时，在我脑海中留下了它的种子

这幻觉在我的脑海里生根发芽
Because a vision softly creeping
久久不能散去

伴随着寂静之声
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
在不安的梦境中我独自行走在

狭窄的鹅卵石街道
And the vision that was planted in my brain
在路灯的光环照耀下

我用衣领来抵挡寒冷与湿气
Still remains
一道耀眼的霓虹灯光刺入我的眼睛

它划过了夜空
Within the sound of silence
打破了这寂静之声

在微弱的灯光之下
In restless dreams I walked alone
我看到了无尽的人们

人们言而无心
Narrow streets of cobblestone
人们听而不闻

人们在彼此间筑起隔阂
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
没人敢

打破这寂静之声
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
我说：“傻瓜，难道你不知道

寂静如同顽疾滋长”
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
聆听我的言语，或会让你受益几分

拉住我的臂膀，或会让你就此觉醒
That split the night
但我的言语就如无声的雨滴般落下

回响在寂静的井中
And touched the sound of silence
人们对自己所创造的

神明顶礼膜拜
And in the naked light I saw
神兆中闪射出告诫之语

在字里行间清楚指明
Ten thousand people maybe more
它告诉人们

先知者的话都已铭刻在地道之墙上
People talking without speaking
与破损的房屋中

亦在寂静之声中被低语
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share

No one dared

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
Words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

Tenement halls

Whispered in the sounds of silence