Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with
you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its scenes while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobble and stone
Least the halo of a street lamp I turned my
color to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stammed
by the flash of a neon light
That split the night and
touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw 10 ,000 people,
maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs
And voices never shared
And no one dared
Distur b the sound
Of silence
Fools in
I, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words and I might teach you
Take my arms and I might reach you
But my words like silent raindrops fell
An echo in the lands of si lence
And the people bowed in praise
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out it s warning
Hear the words that it was for me
In the signs and the words on the profits
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper in the sound of si
lence
you