The Sound of Silence (time 3:20)

Hello Darkness my old friend
I've come to talk to you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left it's seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound
Of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobbled stone
'Neath the hallow of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes where 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 shared
No one dared
Disturb 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 might reach you
But my words like silent rain drops fell
And echoed
in the wells
of silence

and the people bowed and prayed
to the neon god they made
and the sign flashed out it's warning
in the words that it was forming
and the sign said the words of the profits are written on the subway walls
and tenement halls
and whispered
in the sounds
of silence