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.

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

It split the night

And touched the sound of silence.

The 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 (listening)

System check

Neon black

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 whispered

In the sound of silence.

The sounds of silence

The sounds of silence!

The sounds

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