hello
darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
because a vision softly creeping
I left the seeds while
I was sleeping
and the vision that was
planted in my brain
still remains with in the
sound of silence
In restless dreams
I walked alone
narrow streets of cobble stone
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
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
CANCER GROW
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 flached out
it's 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
and whisper'd
in the sound of silence