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 The narrow streets of cobblestone Beneath 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 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 there to stop the sound of silence In the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People writing songs that voices never share No one there to stop the sound of silence In the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more Piano Solo Who said that 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 Heard my words like silent raindrops fell Echoed in the world of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the near God they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was for me And the sign said the words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls Tenement halls Whispered in the sounds of silence *