HELLO DARKNESS

MY OLD FRIEND

I'VE COME TO TALK

WITH YOU AGAIN

BECAUSE A VISION

SOFTLY CREEPING

LEFT IT'S SEED

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 TURN MY COLLAR

TO THE COLD AND DAMP

WHEN MY EYES

WERE STAMPED

BY THE FLASH

OF A NEON LIGHT

IT 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

ECHOED IN THE WELL

OF SILENCE

AND THE PEOPLE

BOWED AND PRAYED

TO THE NEON GOD

THEY'D MADE

AND THE SIGN

FLASHED OUT

IT'S 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 SOUND

OF SILENCE