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 in the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone Beneath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stared 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 and voices never shared No one dared to stir the sound of silence Fool said I, you do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words and I might teach you Take my arms and I might reach you But my words like silent raindrops fell And drove the noise of silence And the people now are praying To the neon god they made And the sign lashed out, it's for me Hear the words and it was for me And the sign said, the words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls Tenement halls, whisper in the sound of silence And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more