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
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
The sound of silence

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 stabbed by the flash of a neon light
It split the night
And touched the sound of silence
The sound of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
Fools said I, You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening (listening)!

System check!
Neon black!

And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered
In the sound of silence
The sounds of silence
The sounds of silence!
The sounds

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