SOUNDS OF SILENCE IS ABOUT THE McCARTHY ERA

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6 People talking without speaking People taking the Fifth Amendment People hearing without listening Hearing: A session, as of an investigatory committee or a grand jury, at which testimony is taken from witnesses. People writing songs that voices never share The Hollywood blacklist People writing left wing songs that will never be recorded and no one dared Disturb the sound of silence And everyone was intimidated to speak out against McCarthyism and disturb the McCarthyites. "Fools" said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you
7 Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence Fools, said I, you do not know Silence like a cancer grows If you don’t speak out against McCarthyism it will only get worse and kill American democracy. Hear my words that I might teach you Literal Take my arms An administrative or functional branch, as of an organization, as of the Democratic Party. That I might reach you To succeed in having an effect on: “No one seems able to reach Dylan anymore.” But my words, like silent raindrops fell But my words were metaphorical and poetic And echoed in the wells of silence Echo: (Poetry) the repetition of certain sounds or syllables in a verse line. 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
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