Hello there darkness, old friend, I've come
Round to talk with you again
Because a vision's softly creping
Left its seeds while I just slept in

Lookin' for a vision planted in my brain
And you know that vision it still remains
I've got a vision and can't think right
Gotta have some silence
Need the sound of silence tonight
Silence
I need some silence
I want some quiet
I need silence

Restless dreams I walk alone down narrow
Cobblestone streets under street lamps
Eyes stabed by a flash of neon lighting
Turned my collar to cold and damp

Gotta have some silence baby this evening
I need some silence baby tonight
I need some silence baby this evening
Need the sound of silence
Gotta turn it down tonight
I need silence

Silence
The sound of silence

Shh, shh, shh, silence
Shh, shh, shh
Shh, shh, shh, silence
Shh, shh, shh

Naked light ten thousand people talkin, speaking
They don't hear or listen at all
Silence like a cancer grows and I would
teach you if you'd listen. But the rain falls.

Gotta have some silence baby this evening
I need some silence baby tonight
I need some silence baby this evening
Need the sound of silence
Gotta turn it down tonight
I need silence

I need silence
Listen, silence
Can't think--need silence

People bowed and prayed to their neon goddess
When the sign it flashed out a call
Said words of the prophets are written in subways
And upon the tenement halls

Gotta have some silence baby this evening
I need some silence baby tonight
I need some silence baby this evening
Need the sound of silence
Please turn off this song tonight
I need silence

Silence
Silence
Silence
Silence
Shh, shh, shh, silence
Shh, shh, shh
Shh, shh, shh, silence
Shh, shh, shh