The Sound Of Silence - Sílvia Pérez Cruz

Hello darkness

Hello darkness my old friend

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 with the Sounds of

Silence

And in naked light I saw ten thousand people may be more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never share and no one dare

Disturb the Sounds of Silence

«Fools!»

said I «You do not know silence like a cancer grows»

«Hear my words that I might reach you take my arms that I might reach you»

But my words like silent rain-drops fell and echoed in the wells of silence

And people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out is warming

In the words that I was forming

And the signs said: «the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

and tenement halls»

And whispered in the Sound of Silence

Ahh ahh ahh Mmm mmm ahhh aah oohh

And whispered in the sound of silence