Hits Etc. The Sound Of Silence song lyrics

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

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a streetlamp

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 shared

No one dared

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 silent 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"