Intro:
Hello darkness my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left it's 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
'Neath the halo of a streetlamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes where 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, maybe more
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared,
Snd no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"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."
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence.
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out it's warning in the words
That it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets
Sre written on the subway walls
And tenement halls, and whispered
In the sounds of silence."