In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

Neath the halo of a streetlamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed

By the flash of a neon light 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 shared and no one dared

To stir the sound of silence

Fool said I you do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

Take my arms then I might reach you

Hear my words and I might teach 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'd 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 whispered

In the sounds of silence