Sound Of Silence - Rerecording

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 sound 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 pierced the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw (Saw)
Ten thousand people, maybe more (Maybe more)
People talking without speaking (Speaking, speaking)
People hearing without listening (Listening, listening)
People writing songs that voices never share (No)
No one dared (No) disturb the sound (Disturb
The sound) of silence (Silence, silence)

"Fools," said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows (Cancer grows)
Hear my words that I might teach you (I might teach you)
Take my arms that I might reach you" (I might reach you)
But my words, like silent raindrops, fell (Fell, fell, fell)
And echoed in the wells of silence (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 sign said, "The words of the
Prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls" (Tenement halls)
And whispered in the sound of silence