Sound Of Silence

[Intro]

Hello, darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because the vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision

That was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound (sound)

Of silence

[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

And in the naked light, I saw!

Tеn thousand people, maybe morе...

People talking without speaking!

People hearing without listening!

People writing songs!

That voices never shared!

And no one dared

Disturb the sound

Of silence...

[Verse 3]

"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...

[Verse 4]

And the people bowed and prayed...

To the neon gods they made...!

And the sign flashed out its warning...

In the words that it was forming...!

Then the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...!

In tenement halls..."

[Outro]

And whispered in the sound... (shh)

Of silence...