[Intro] [Verse 1] Hello darkness my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creepin’ left it’s seeds while I was sleepin’ And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains Within the sounds of silence [Verse 2] In restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone ’Neath the halo of a-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 3] 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 dares Disturb the sounds of silence [Verse 4] 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 [Verse 5] And the people bowed and prayed to that 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 that subway walls and tenement halls And whisper’d in the sounds... of silence