Sound of silent
Hello darkness my old friend
I come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Let it seed while I was cleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remain, within the sound of silence
In restless dream I walked alone
Narrow street of comble stone
'Neath a halo of a street lamp
I turned my color to the cold and damp
When my eyes were step by the flash of a neon light
That split the night and touch the sound of silence
And in the naked like I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People's talkin' without speaking
People's hearin' without listening
People's writing song that voices never share
And no one dare disturb the sound of silence
"Fool" said I "you do not know"
"Silence like a cancer grows"
Here my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silence raindrops fell
And echo in the well 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 propets are written on the subway walls
And tenement hall and whisper in the sound of silence
(
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