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LYRICS to CONFOUNDS THE SCIENCE

(Written by Don Caron – Music by Simon & Garfunkel)

Hello darkness my old friend.

It’s time for him to tweet again,

but first he’ll have to check in with fox news

‘cause that’s the only place he gets his clues.

That’s how things get planted in his brain,

where they remain,

and it confounds the science.

The problem is he’s not alone.

He tweets to people on his phone

that global warming is a giant hoax

perpetuated by the liberal folks,

and he hires people that all think the same,

that play his game

and it confounds the science.

When he talks to crowds of four

he sees ten thousand maybe more,

believing they all think he’s god on earth

and was the product of a virgin birth

and if you disagree you’re the victim of fake news

or feminist shrews

and it confounds the science.

“Fools,” says he, “you do not know

it makes me smart from so much dough.

I know exactly where the problems are.”

But his solutions are beyond bizarre

‘cause his words never quite a sentence make

and thus he spake

and it confounds the science.

No limits on pollution now.

There’s not a thing we don’t allow.

Dump the garbage in the waterway.

Spray the toxins where your children play.

All the signs say that life on the planet is headed for a downward fall.

Go to the mall,

and continue to confound the science.

Copyright 2017 Parody Project

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL SONG

Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

A year later, inspired by the Byrds’ version of “Mr. Tambourine Man” (a Dylan song), Tom Wilson, the producer of the Simon & Garfunkel album decided to release The Sound of Silence again with some amped up guitar parts. This new version was an instant hit. The two got together back in the States and set out to create a follow-up hit, which they did, with “I am a Rock.” Both songs were released on an album titled “Sounds of Silence” in January of 1966.

The creative motivation behind the song has never been completely clarified though there have been many theories put forth in the last fifty years. At the time it was released, there was wide-spread speculation that Sound of Silence was a commentary on the John F. Kennedy assassination since the song was released on the radio only 90 days after he was killed. That theory was debunked by Paul Simon himself, when he pointed out in an interview that he penned the lyrics when he was 21 years old, which was prior to the Kennedy assassination. Simon’s explanation was that he liked to write music in the bathroom, in the dark, with the water running. Thus the opening lyric, “Hello darkness, my old friend.”

According to Art Garfunkel’s version of the story, the original lyric Simon wrote was “Aloha darkness, my old friend.”[Wiki Reference] Garfunkel described the song’s meaning (in the fashion of the times) as a depiction of people’s inability to communicate emotionally, “so what you see around you are people unable to love each other.” [Wiki Reference]

When speaking with Terry Gross (NPR) in a National Public Radio interview, Paul Simon elaborated on how he wrote Sound of Silence while working at his first real music job:

“It was just when I was coming out of college. My job was to take the songs that this huge publishing company owned and go around to record companies and see if any of their artists wanted to record the songs. I worked for them for about six months and never got a song placed, but I did give them a couple of my songs because I felt so guilty about taking their money. Then I got into an argument with them and said, ‘Look, I quit, and I’m not giving you my new song.’ And the song that I had just written was ‘The Sound of Silence.’ I thought, ‘I’ll just publish it myself,’ and from that point on I owned my own songs, so that was a lucky argument.“I think about songs that it’s not just what the words say but what the melody says and what the sound says. My thinking is that if you don’t have the right melody, it really doesn’t matter what you have to say, people don’t hear it. They only are available to hear when the sound entrances and makes people open to the thought. Really the key to ‘The Sound of Silence’ is the simplicity of the melody and the words, which are youthful alienation. It’s a young lyric, but not bad for a 21-year-old. It’s not a sophisticated thought, but a thought that I gathered from some college reading material or something. It wasn’t something that I was experiencing at some deep, profound level – nobody’s listening to me, nobody’s listening to anyone – it was a post-adolescent angst, but it had some level of truth to it and it resonated with millions of people. Largely because it had a simple and singable melody.”

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