Sound Of Silence 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 is planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walk alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a streetlamp I turn my collar agains the cold and and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light It 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 share And no one dared Break the sound of silence 'Fool' 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 my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the well if silence And the people bowedu and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words it was forming And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway halls And tenement halls And whispered in the sound of silence -Sound of Silence (by Simon&Garfunkle