Erstaunlich Hello Darkness My Old Friend Ebenbild. 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. Hello darkness, my old friend is the first line of simon and garfunkel's hit 1964 song, the sounds of silence.paul simon later described the song's melancholy lyrics as stemming from youthful alienation. a remixed version of the song—the version usually heard on tv, movies, and radio today—rose to the top of the billboard charts in november 1965.
Greenberg , justice ruth bader ginsburg (foreword by) , art garfunkel (introduction) , margaret atwood (afterword) sanford d.
The song was written by paul simon over several months in 1963 and 1964. I want to share it with you. In his memoir, hello darkness, my old friend (simon & schuster, june, 2020), greenberg credits garfunkel with lifting him from the pits of despair and helping him to begin navigating life as a blind man at just 20 years old. 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.