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 Near the hanger of a street lamp, I turned my color to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of an 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 Fool said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you, take my hope that I might reach out to you But my words, like silence, raindrops fell And echoed in the words of silence And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning, in the world that it was forming And the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And ten men talked and whispered the sounds of silence 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