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 walk alone

　　Narrow streets of cobble stone

　　Neath the helo of a street lamp

　　I turned my collar to the cold and damp

　　When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of neon light,

　　That 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 writng songs that voices never share

　　And no one dare

　　Disturbed 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

　　And echoed in the wells of silence

　　And the people bowed and prayed

　　To the neon god they made

　　And the sign flash out its warning

　　In the words that it was forming

　　And the sign said the words of the prophet

　　Was written on the subway wall and tenement halls

　　And whispered in the sound of silence