The Sound Of Silence

Hello, my old friend

Come to talk to you again

Cause a vision softly creeping

Left it's seeds while I was sleeping

And this vision that was planted

In my brain still remains within

The sound, sound, 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, sound, 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 the words, like silent raindrops fell

Yes, they did and echoed (echoed)

In the well, well, well of silence

Ooh, the sound of silence

Ooh, the sound 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 prophet are

Are written on the subway

Walls and tenement halls

And whispered in the

Sound, sound, sound of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

Ten thousand people, maybe more

Narrow streets of cobblestone

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

In the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah