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 within the sound
of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Near the halo of a street lamp I turned my color to the cold and damp
But my eyes were stopped by the flash of a neon light
That played 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 dared
disturb the sounds of silence
Fools I said 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 I called in the worlds
of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
The signs said the words
of the
prophets on the subway walls
And ten men hushed And whispered in the sounds of silence