SOUNDS
OF SILENCE
(Simon & Garfunkel)
Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its 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 walk alone
Narrow streets of cobblestones
Beneath the halo of street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash
of a neon light
Split the night
And touch the sound of silence.
.
And in the naked night I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing poems that voices never
share
No one dared disturb the sound of silence.
.
Fool 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 raindrop fell
Echoed in the wells of silence.
.
And the people bowed and prayed
To the 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 the subway wall
And the tenement halls and
Whispered in the sound of silence
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