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
Neat's the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stammed by the flash of a neon light
light that split the night and touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw 10,000 people moving on.
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening.
People writing songs
Their voices never shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound
Of silence
Fools say now you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words and I'm a-hide with you
Lay my arms out and I'm a-hide with you
I ain't read you,
but my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells
of silence
And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
The hearse forming in the silence
And the words on the profits are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls in whispered in the sound
of silence
And in the naked light I saw
ten thousand people moving
People talking without speaking,
people hearing without listening,
people writing songs that
voices never share,
and no one dared
to stir the sound of silence.