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,
That was planted in my brain
n restless dreams I walked al
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
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.
Like silent raindrops fell,
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.
The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And whispered in the sounds