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 that I might
teach you
Take my arms then I might
reach you
But my words
like silent raindrops fell
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