Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk with you again
Because your vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was bloodied in my brain Still remains within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I've walked alone Narrow streets of cobbled stone
Need the help of someone to help me
In 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
But 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 did
Disturb the sound of silence
Fool's, they are
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 rengrole
Fear my voice yet I'm rescuing me










And echoed in the words of silence And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made And the sun flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming And the signs tell the words of the prophets
Are written on the silk way walls And tenement halls
Whispered in the sounds of silence
And the people bowed and prayed