The Sound of Silence

Hello darkness,
Hello darkness my old friend
Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to 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
With the Sounds of Silence.
And in naked light I saw
Ten thousand people may be more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices
Never share and no one dare
Disturb the Sounds of Silence
"Fools!" said I "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows"
"Hear my words that I might reach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent
Rain-drops fell and echoed
In the wells of silence.
And people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out is warming.
In the words that I was forming
And the signs said: "the words
Of the prophets are written on
The subway walls and tenement halls"
And whispered in the Sound of Silence.
Ahh ahh ahh Mmm mmm ahhh aah oohh
And whispered in the sound of silence...