sound of silence

Hello darkness my old friend
Ive come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its 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 walk alone
Narrow streets of cobble stone
Beneath the hallo of
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
And in the naked night I saw
ten thousand people may be more
People talking without speaking
people hearing without listening
People writing songs
that voices never share
And no one dare disturb
the sound of silence
And the people bow and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flash out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sings said
the words of the prophets are
Written on the subway
walls and tenement halls
And whispered
in the sounds of silence