LA CANCIÓN DE LA SEMANA

Hola queridos amigos,

Volvemos una semana más con una gran canción. Hoy nos adentramos en los sesenta, la gran década para la música popular, grupos como The Beatles o Rolling Stones  nacían en ella, un nuevo genero se acuñaba en estos dichosos años. El tema de hoy nos lleva al año 1964, los Beatles publicaban este año sus albunes "A Hard Day's Night" y "Beatles for sale" y Roy Orbison grababa su famosísimo sencillo "Pretty Woman". Sin embargo, hoy hablamos de un famoso duo a quienes parodiaban Martes y Trece, un duo que puso voz a la popular melodía peruana "El Condor Pasa": Simon & Garfunkel, scon uno de sus mayores éxitos, "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 
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 shared
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 "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"