Lyrics:

Hello, darkness my old friend\rI've come to talk with you again\rBecause a vision softly creeping\rLeft its seeds while I was sleeping\rAnd the vision that was planted in my brain\rStill remains\rWithin the sound of silence.\r\rIn restless dreams i walked alone\rNarrow streets of cobblestone,\r'Neath the halo of a street lamp\rI turned my collar to the cold and damp\rWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light\rThat split the night\rAnd touched the sound of silence.\r\rAnd in the naked light I saw\rTen thousand people, maybe more\rPeople talking without speaking\rPeople hearing without listening\rPeople writing songs that voices never share\rAnd no one dared\rDisturb the sound of silence.\r\r'Fools,' said I, 'You do not know\rSilence like a cancer grows.\rHear my words that I might teach you,\rTake my arms that I might reach you.'\rBut my words like silent raindrops fell,\rAnd echoed\rIn the wells of silence\r\rAnd the people bowed and prayed\rTo the neon god they made\rAnd the sign flashed out a warning,\rIn the words that it was forming.\rAnd the signs said the words of the prophets\rAre written on the subway walls\rAnd tenement halls.\rAnd whisper'd in the sounds of silence.