Sounds of Silence (From "The Graduate")

Sounds of Silence - The Hollywood Strings/Tom Swift/Erika De Lorenzi/Movie Trio

Hello darkness

My old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left it's 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

Beneath the halo of a 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 hazy light I saw

Ten thousand people maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without hearing

People writing songs that voices never share

No one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

Fools said that I did 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

Echoed

The sound of silence

And the people kneeled and prayed

To the neon god they made

And the sign shout out warning

Hear the words that it was forming

And the sign said

The words of the prophets are

Written on the subway walls

Tenement halls

Whispered the sounds of silence