Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to 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 street lamp
I turned my collar
To the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That 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
Disturb the sound of silence
Fools I said you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words
That I might teach you
Take my arms
That I might reach you
But my words
Like silent raindrops fall
And echoed in the wells of silence
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
Then the sign said
The words on the prophets are
Written on the subway walls
In tenement halls
And whispered in the sound
Of silence