The Sound Of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left this scene while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

It still remains within the sun of silence

In restful dreams I walk alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'neath the hallowed of trees the glen

Took my rollercoaster and hauled it down

When my eyes would stare by the flash of the neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And by an anchor light the sound

Fenced out the people, maybe more

People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening,

People writing songs, voices never shared, and no one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

Fools that say that you don't know

Silence like a cancer's growth

Hear my words that I might kill you

Take my heart that I might with you

But my words like silence when drums fill

And echoes seemed it was the sound of silence

And the people bore a prayer to the Neon God they made

And the sirens were shouting, warning

In the words that I was forming

And the signs and the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

And tenements homes

And whisper in the sound of silence