Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel


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 Sounds 
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 dared
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 its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said, The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence

Paul Simon
Soundtrack of "The Graduate"