Hello
darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because the vision softly creeping
Left it seems while I was sleeping
The vision that was planted in my brain
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.
And my eyes will stand 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 we made one
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening People writing songs
Their voices never shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
Fools say now you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words and I might teach you
Take my arms and I might reach you
And on my words,
a silent
raindrop fell
And echoed in the west from silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
And the words that it was forming
The sirens say the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound
of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people weeping
People talking without speaking
People hearing without speaking People hearing without listening
People writing songs Their voices never shared
And no one dared To stir the sound
of silence