hello darkness my old friend
love 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
narrow streets of cobblestone
neath 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
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 dare disturb the sound of silence
fools 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 silence raindrops fell
and echoed in the wells 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 sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
and tenement halls
and whispered in the sounds of silence
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