[Intro] 


[Verse 1]
              
Hello darkness

             
, my old frien

              
d, I've come t

              
o talk with yo

    
u again,
             
Because a visi

            
on softly cree

             
ping, left its

              
 seeds while I

         
 was sleeping,
            
And the vision

              
 that was plan

             
ted in my brai

              
n still remain

          
s,
             
Within the sou

         
nd of silence.

[Verse 2]
            
In restless dr

              
eams I walked 

             
alone, narrow 

              
streets of cob

     
blestone,
              
'Neath the hal

           
o of a street 

             
lamp, I turned

              
 my collar to 

            
the cold and d

 
amp,
            
When my eyes w

              
ere stabbed by

              
 the flash of 

             
a neon light t

              
hat split the 

   
night,
              
And touched th

          
e sound of sil

ence.

[Verse 3]
            
And in the nak

             
ed light I saw

              
 ten thousand 

              
people, maybe 

 
more,
              
People talking

           
 without speak

             
ing, people he

              
aring without 

     
listening,
            
People writing

              
 songs that vo

             
ices never sha

              
re, and no one

       
 dare,
             
Disturb the so

       
und of silence

.

[Verse 4]
            
"Fools!" said 

              
I, "You do not

             
 know, silence

              
 like a cancer

    
 grows."
              
"Hear my words

             
 that I might 

           
teach you, tak

              
e my arms that

            
 I might reach

  
 you."
            
But my words l

              
ike silent rai

           
ndrops fell, a

             
nd echoed in t

           
he wells of si

lence.

[Verse 5]
              
And the people

              
 bowed and pra

             
yed to the neo

            
n god they mad

e,
              
And the sign f

             
lashed out its

           
 warning, in t

              
he words that 

          
it was forming

,
              
And the signs 

           
said "The word

s of the proph

ets are writte

n 
              
On the subway 

             
walls, and ten

              
ement halls"
             
And whisper'd 

             
in the sounds 

    
of silence.