New way of life

the sound of silence

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 street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and dump
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That slipt the night
And touched the sound of silence

And the naked light i saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
people hearing without listening
People writing songs that voiced never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said i "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grow
Hear my words that i might teach you
Take my arms that 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 the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out it waring
In the word that it was forming
And the sign said "the words of the prophets are written on subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whisper'd in the sound of silence


the singers: Simon and Garfunkel