Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk w/ u again
B'coz a vission softly creeping
Left it seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
W/in the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Neaht 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 touch the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking w/out sleeping
People hearing w/out listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
Fools said I don't 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 fell
And echoed in the walls of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flash outits warning
In the words that I was forming
And the sign I said
The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the soun d of silence