Hello darkness my old friend,
I've 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
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stammed
by the flash of a neon light
touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
Their voices never shared
Fools in I, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Played my arms out on my high
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out it s warning
Hear the words that it was forming
In the signs and the words
An d whispered in the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people leaving
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
Disturb the sound of silence
