Sound of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creepin’,
Left it’s seeds while I was sleepin’,
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 share
No one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
And the sign flashed out it’s warnin’,
In the words that it was formin’
And the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
Whisper’d the sounds of silence