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

Hm

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, hm