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
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