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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And the people bowed and prayed<br />
BOW: To cause to acquiesce; submit.<br />
To the neon god they made<br />
Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy whose Army-McCarthy hearings were televised<br />
And the sign flashed out its warning<br />
Flash: A brief news dispatch or transmission.<br />
In the words that it was forming<br />
To develop in the mind; conceive: Her reading led her to form a different opinion.<br />
And the sign said, the words of the prophets<br />
A spokesman for a movement, doctrine, etc<br />
Are written on the subway walls<br />
and tenement halls<br />
Are Leftist posters etc.<br />
And whispered in the sounds of silence
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