Hello, darkness my old friend

暗夜見君！

Ive come to talk with you again

與君促膝談心

Because a vision softly creeping

你我的願景煦煦蠕動

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

在蝶夢瑰園，播下種籽

And the vision that was planted in my brain

境象深深刻在腦海

Still remains, within the sound of silence

仍留在寂靜聲音中

In restless dreams I walked alone

夢裡躊躇，獨自徘徊

Narrow streets of cobble stones

走上卵石街

Beneath the halo of a street lamp

在街燈光暈下

I turn my collar to the cold and damp

翻起衣領，抵禦寒冷

When my eyes were stabbed by

the flash of a neon light

一道霓虹燈光刺痛雙眼

Split the night, and touched the sound of silence

劃破長夜，只剩寂靜

And in the naked light I saw

在冰冷光中

Ten thousand people maybe more

看見千萬人，或許更多

People talking without speaking

人人講話，言之無物

People hearing without listening

豎起耳聽，聽而不聞

People writing songs that voice never share

吟唱歌曲，沒有共鳴

No one dares, disturb the sound of silence

無人打擾寂靜

Fools, said I, you do not know

愚蠢的人們，矇然不知

Silence like a cancer grows

寂靜像癌症滋長

Hear my words that I might teach you

聽聽我說

Take my arms that I might reach you

我向你們伸出雙臂

But my words like silent raindrops fall

我的喃喃話語像雨點靜靜落下

Echoed in the wells of silence

在寂靜深井裡回響

And the people bowed and prayed

to the neon god they made

人們供奉霓虹燈神

And the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming

霓虹燈上的字閃爍警告

And the sign said "the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls"

地鐵與大廈走廊的塗鴉，

是先知的話

And whispered in the sound of silence

都在寂靜聲中低訴