The Sound of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left it's seed while I was sleeping And the vision That was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence Hmm In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp I turn 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 No one dared Disturb the sound of silence Hmm 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 Echoed (echoed) In the realms of silence (ooh, oh, whoa) And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they'd made And the sign flashed out it's 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 in the sound (and in the sound, and in the sound) Of silence Ooh, hmm