Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a visions softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted
in to 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 by 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 share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
Fools said I, "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 fell,
And echoed
In the walls of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they'd made
And the sign flashed out is warning,
In the words that is was forming
And the sign said the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.