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 Heath 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 may be more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share And no one deared Disturb the sound of silence "Food" said I you do not know Silence like a cancer grows Here my arms that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you But my words like silence rain drops fell And echoeo 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 sing said the worlds of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whisper`d in the sounds of silence
