The Sound Of Silence

有人點起古巴雪茄飲波爾多紅酒,
有人在街頭巷尾洗碗洗碟.
經濟好轉? 看不見落到我們手上.
低薪, 開工不足, 綜援...
社會上還有很多人朝不晚保.
職工盟根據政府統計處數據估計,
全港超過50萬僱員人數月入不足6千元,
而且每周工作超過40小時, 佔總就業人口七分一.
各行各業都有低薪情況, 包含不同年齡層的僱員,
更有由政府向社褔機構提供資助聘請的活動助理.
點心員 $20.69/hr,
洗頭員 $23.12/hr,
保安員 $28.38/hr,
清潔工 $23.12/hr,
雜工 $21.87/hr,
屈臣氏 $27/hr,
麥當勞 $20/hr...

Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come with talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone
Neath the halo of a streetlamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared, and no one dared
To stir the sound of silence

Fool, said I, you do not know, silence, like a cancer, grows
Hear my words and I might teach you, take my arms then I might reach you
But my words, like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they'd made
And the sign flashed 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

The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel