Mal12345
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I've been hearing this song all my life called The Sound of Silence. The musical group Disturbed recently released its cover of that song.
I believe the lyrics are stating that materialism is destroying our ability to communicate. The neon sign represents materialism. When first describing it, the neon sign comes across as dangerous:
"my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light."
The lyrics indicate that people worship the neon sign (i.e., they worship crass materialism).
But the message of the neon light is the part I struggle to understand:
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls." That would indicate graffiti. What is the graffiti? Perhaps an attempt to be understood, to communicate to others feelings that nobody understands? The prophets in the Bible (or other spiritual sources) have degenerated, in materialistic terms, to graffiti artists, graffiti considered perhaps the lowest art form. Spiritualism produces prophets and great books that last forever, materialism produces graffiti artists and art that can merely be washed away or painted over.
I guess that's what it means.
I believe the lyrics are stating that materialism is destroying our ability to communicate. The neon sign represents materialism. When first describing it, the neon sign comes across as dangerous:
"my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light."
The lyrics indicate that people worship the neon sign (i.e., they worship crass materialism).
But the message of the neon light is the part I struggle to understand:
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls." That would indicate graffiti. What is the graffiti? Perhaps an attempt to be understood, to communicate to others feelings that nobody understands? The prophets in the Bible (or other spiritual sources) have degenerated, in materialistic terms, to graffiti artists, graffiti considered perhaps the lowest art form. Spiritualism produces prophets and great books that last forever, materialism produces graffiti artists and art that can merely be washed away or painted over.
I guess that's what it means.