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 sound of silence
In restless dreams I walk alone
Narrow streets of cobble stone
Beneath the hallo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked night I saw ten thousand people may be more
People talking without speaking hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare disturb the sound of silence
"Fool" 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
But my words like silent rain-drops fell
And echo-ed in the wells of silence
And the people bow and prayed
to the neon God they made
And the sign flash out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sings said "The words of the prophers are
written the subway walls and tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
《Scarborough Fair》《斯卡布羅集市》中英歌詞對照：
Are you going to Scarborough Fair 問爾所之，是否如適
Parsely sage rosemary and thyme 蕙蘭芫荽，郁郁香芷
Remember me to one who lives there 彼方淑女，憑君寄辭
She once was a true love of mine 伊人曾在，與我相知
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt 囑彼佳人，備我衣緇
Parsely sage rosemary and thyme 蕙蘭芫荽，郁郁香芷
Without no seams nor needle work 勿用針砧，無隙無疵
Then she will be a true love of mine 伊人何在，慰我相思
（On the side of hill in the deep forest green 彼山之陰，深林荒址
Tracing of sparrow on snow crested brown 冬尋氈毯，老雀燕子
Blankets and bed clothers the child of maintain 雪覆四野，高山遲滯
Sleeps unawafe of the clarion call 眠而不覺，寒笳清嘶）
Tell her to find me an acre of land 囑彼佳人，營我家室
Parsely sage rosemary and thyme 蕙蘭芫荽，郁郁香芷
Between the salt water and the sea strand良田所修，大海之坻
Then she will be a true love of mine 伊人應在，任我相視
（On the side of hill a sprinkling of leaves 彼山之陰，葉疏苔蝕
Washes the grave with slivery tears 滌我孤冢，珠淚漸漬
A soldier cleans and polishes a gun 昔我長劍，日日拂拭
Sleeps unaware of the clarion call 寂而不覺，寒笳長嘶）
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather 囑彼佳人，收我秋實
Parsely sage rosemary and thyme 蕙蘭芫荽，郁郁香芷
And gather it all in a bunch of heather 斂之集之，勿棄勿失
Then she will be a ture love of mine 伊人猶在，唯我相誓
（War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions 烽火印嘯，浴血之師
Generals order their soldiers to kill and to fight for a cause將帥有令，勤王之事
They have long ago forgoten 爭鬥緣何，久忘其旨
Sleeps unaware of the clarion call 癡而不覺，寒笳悲嘶）