Simon & Garfunkel

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left it's seed while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains… Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Through 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
That 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 dare… Disturb the 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 my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed there…. In the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon Gods they’d made.
And the sign flashed out it's warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls.
And whispered in the sounds of silence.