The Sound of Silence
Hello darkness my old friend
- 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
- '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
- 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
- And 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 its warning
- In the words that it was forming
- And the sign said
- The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
- And tenement halls and whispered in the sound of silence
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