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 street lamp

Turned my collar to the cold and damned

When my eyes were stabbed

By the flash of a neon light

Split the night

And touched the sound of silence

Fools said I 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

Within the sound of silence