Pink Floyd "Wish you were here",1975

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,

blue skies from pain.

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?

Hot ashes for trees? Hot hair for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange

a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.

year after year

running over the same old ground. What have we found?

The same old fears

wish you were here.

Simon and Garfunkel " Sound of Silence"

Salve oscurità, mia vecchia amica ho ripreso a parlarti ancora perchè una visione che fa dolcemente rabbrividire ha lasciato in me i suoi semi mentre dormivo e la visione che è stata piantata nel mio cervello ancora persiste nel suono del silenzio Nei sogni agitati io camminavo solo attraverso strade strette e ciottolose nell'alone della luce dei lampioni sollevando il bavero contro il freddo e l'umidità quando i miei occhi furono colpiti dal flash di una luce al neon che attraversò la notte e toccò il suono del silenzio
E nella luce pura vidimigliaia di persone, o forse piùpersone che parlavano senza emettere suonipersone che ascoltavano senza udirepersone che scrivevano canzoni che le voci non avrebbero mai cantatoe nessuno osava, disturbare il suono del silenzio
"Stupidi" io dissi, "voi non sapeteche il silenzio cresce come un cancro ascoltate le mie parole che io posso insegnarvi, aggrappatevi alle mie braccia che io posso raggiungervi" Ma le mie parole caddero come gocce di pioggia, e riecheggiarono, nei pozzi del silenzio
e la gente si inchinava e pregavaal Dio neon che avevano creato. e l'insegna proiettò il suo avvertimento,tra le parole che stava delineando. e l'insegna disse "le parole dei profetisono scritte sui muri delle metropolitanee sui muri delle case popolari." E sussurrò nel suono del silenzio

Testo “The sound of silence” originale

Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left it’s 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 share And no one deared 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 it’s warning, In the words that it was forming. And the signs said, the words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls. And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy

And God I Know I'm one

My mother was a tailor

She sewed my new blue jeans

My father was a gamblin'man

Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler need

Is a suitcase and a trunk

And the only time he's satisfied

Is when he's all drunk

Oh mother tell your children

Not to do what I have done

Spend your lives in sin and misery

In the House of the Rising Sun

Well, I got one foot on the platform

The other foot on the train

I'm going back to New Orleans

To wear that ball and chain

Well, there is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy

And God I know i'm one