[Verse 1]
            
   Hello darkn

            
ess, my old fr

iend,
              
I've come to t

             
alk with you a


gain,
              
Because a visi

             
on softly cree

 
ping,
              
Left its seeds

             
 while I was s

   
leeping,
             
And the vision

              
 that was plan

          
ted in my brai

n
            
Still remains

  
            
Within the sou

       
nd of silence.

[Verse 2]
              
In restless dr

              
eams I walked 

 
alone
              
Narrow streets

          
 of cobbleston

e,
              
'neath the hal

             
o of a street 


lamp,
              
I turned my co

             
llar to the co

       
ld and damp
             
When my eyes w

              
ere stabbed by

              
 the flash of 

       
a neon light
              
That split the

        
 night
             
And touched th

          
e sound of sil

ence.

[Verse 3]
              
And in the nak

           
ed light I saw
              
Ten thousand p

             
eople, maybe m


ore.
              
People talking

            
 without speak

ing,
              
People hearing

             
 without liste


ning,
              
People writing

             
 songs that vo

           
ices never sha

re
              
And no one dar

  
e
            
Disturb the so

       
und of silence

.

[Verse 4]
              
Fools said I, 

           
you do not kno

w
              
Silence like a

        
 cancer grows.
              
Hear my words 

             
that I might t

     
each you,
              
Take my arms t

             
hat I might re

    
ach you.
             
But my words l

              
ike silent rai

            
ndrops fell,
   
And echoed
             
In the wells o

  
f silence

[Verse 5]
              
And the people

           
 bowed and pra

yed
              
To the neon Go

       
d they made.
              
And the sign f

             
lashed out its

    
 warning,
              
In the words t

             
hat it was for


ming.
              
And the sign s

         
aid, the words

 of the prophe

ts
              
Are written on

             
 the subway wa

lls
             
And tenement h

      
alls.
             
And whisper'd 

             
in the sounds 

   
of silence.