Simon and Garfunkel \'Sound of Silence\' in Central Park

The Sound of Silence

---Paul Simon---

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
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
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 to you
But my words like silent as raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning
And 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 sound of silence."