SibmHello darkness my old Lab(2)friend
I've come to talk with you aSibmgain Réb
Because a vision sofSolb(1/2)tly creeRéb(1+1/2)ping
Left it seed while I Solb(1/2)was
sleeRébping
And the Solb(2)vision that was planted in my Rébbrain
Still reSibm(1/2)main Rébwithin the Labsound of Sibmsilence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of Coblestone
Near the halo of a street lamp
I turned my color to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That slip 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 writting songs that voices never share
And no one dare disturb the sound of silence...
Fool said I do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might teach you
But my words like silent rain drops fell
And echoes in the wells of silence...
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
And the signs flash its warning
In the words that I was forming
And the signs said the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
and tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence