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 cobble stone

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 night 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.

"Fool" 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 rain-drops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bow and prayed

To the neon God they made

And the sign flash 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 sounds of silence