Hello, darkness,
my old friend I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seat while I was sleeping
An d the vision that was
planted in my brain
Still remained within the
sound of silence
In restless dreams I walk alone,
in narrow streets of cobbled stone.
Near the halo of the streetlight,
I turned my collar to the cold and dead.
When my eyes were stared by
the flash of a neon light
Split the night and touched
the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
10 ,000 people maybe more, talking without speaking,
people hearing without listening,
people writing songs that voices never shared,
no one did.
Disturb the sound of silence
Fool said I 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 silence,
raindrops fell
And echo the words of silence
And when people bow and pray
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out 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 whisper in the sound of silence.