The Sound Of Silence

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

'Neath the halo of a street lamp

I turned my collar

to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed

by the flash of a neon light

That 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 share

And no one dare

Disturb the sound of silence

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 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

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 whispered

in the sound of silence