SOUNDS OF SILENCE IS ABOUT THE McCARTHY ERA
Paul Simon hits the nail on the head with this one.
Paul Simon hits the nail on the head with this one.
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4<br />
'Neath the halo of a street lamp<br />
Neath the circular light on a death camp watchtower<br />
I turned my collar<br />
Slang An arrest, as of a Jew by the Nazis<br />
To the cold<br />
Death<br />
And damp<br />
Where I was destined to become a corpse: Damp: Foul or poisonous gas that<br />
sometimes pollutes the air in coal mines.<br />
When my eyes were stabbed<br />
When my idealism, my thoughts, were betrayed, stabbed in the back<br />
By the flash a brief news dispatch or transmission.<br />
Of a neon light<br />
Of the tanks rolling into Hungry and the Freedom Fighters throwing Malenkov<br />
cocktails at them
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