sound of silence

Hello darkness my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a version softly creeping

And the version that was planted in my brain

Still remains within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone

narrow streets of cobblestone

Neath the halo of a streetlamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the  flash of a neon light

Split the night

And in the nakes light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more

People writing songs that voices never shared, and no one dared

To stir the sound of silence

Fool, said I,you do not know

silence, like a cancer, grows

Hear my words and I might teach you

take my arms then I might reach you

But my words, like silence raindrops fell

and echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed to neon God they're made

And the sigh said the words of prophets are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence.