Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk w/ u again B'coz a vission softly creeping Left it seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains W/in the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone Neaht 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 touch the sound of silence And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking w/out sleeping People hearing w/out listening People writing songs that voices never share And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence Fools said I don't 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 walls of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flash outits warning In the words that I was forming And the sign I said The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the soun d of silence