The Sound of Silence

[verse] 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 [verse 2] 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 [verse] 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 dared Disturb the sound of silence [verse] 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 [verse] 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 [solo] [verse] And the sign said, "The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sounds of silence" [ending] [screams] the sound of silence theee soooound of siiiiiilence the sound of silence [ending]