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
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Leaf the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
by the flash of a neon light
And touched the sound of silence
I saw 10 ,000 people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
Fools and I, you do not know
Silence like a canceled rose
Hear my words and I might teach you
Take my arms and I might reach you
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
An d rolled in the waves of silence
And the people bowed in praise
To the neon garden they made
And the sign lashed out, it hits for me
In the words that it was for me
Are written on the subway walls