Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left the seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
In narrow streets of cobblestones
Neath the halo of a streetlight
I turned my collar to the cold and damped
When my I eyes where stabbed by flash of the neon lights
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 writings song that voices never share
No one dared
Disturbed the sound 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 words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
Tenement halls
And whisper in the sound of silence