에밀리아나 토리니
Hello darkness
my old friend
I've come to talk
with you again
Because a vision
softl-y 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 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 it's
warning
In 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 whisper'd in
the sounds of silence