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,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,sound of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made

"Fools" said I, "You do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

And the sign flashed out its warning

In the words that it was forming

"The words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls

And whisper'd in the sounds of silence×4

"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."