The Sound of Silence Songtext

von Stalley

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left it's seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision
That was plantes in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath a halo of a streetlamp
I turn 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 shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools," said I "You do not know.
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that might teach you.
Take my arms and I might reach you."
But my words, like silent 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."