Laura Deng

我对一首歌的喜爱完全是凭缘分.全然不顾什么排行榜排名,流行,新旧, 风格之类,而在乎能否共鸣.有的歌,随意就飘进心里, 合乎一种情绪,氛围或心境.

我对人声非常敏感,从声音中能听出许多的表情.慢慢发觉自己偏好的歌有些相似的元素,都有点浅吟低唱,如泣如诉的滋味,带着几分懵懂与茫然,但歌者的声音非常干净,纯如水珠...

Emiliana Torrini有着一半冰岛和意大利血统,有着一副冰清玉洁的嗓子.由她诠释的Sound of Silence "寂静之声"兼俱灵性与感性,似乎用一个小女孩的视角在观察周围的一切,脆弱,直接,又真诚.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou6Z6hRddvo
(网上的音乐经过压缩,质量不好, 有机会还是要找原带欣赏)

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 along narrow streets of cobblestone.
Beneath 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 share.
And 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 sounds of silence.