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
