# The sound 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

　　In restless dreams I walked along
　　Narrow streets of cobble stone
　　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 light
　　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
　　And 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 arms that I might reach you"
　　But my words like silent raindrops fell
　　And echoed in the walls of silence

　　And the people bowed and prayed
　　To the neon god they made
　　And the sign flashed out its warning
　　In the words that it was forming
　　And the signs said "The words of the prophets
　　are written on the subway walls
　　And tenement halls"
　　Whispering in the sounds of silence

# The sound of silence