Sound of Silence

Song: Sound of Silence
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel covered by Peter Hollens & Tim Foust

Silence. That's all I get. I swear. Every time I pray asking for help, answers, direction, saving. Are prayers answered? How do you become good enough or "worthy" enough to get your most heart-felt prayers answered? How do you get those "Ensign worthy" or "Conference worthy" answers and miracles? What do I have to do? What do I have to do so that every time I pray, I'm not answered with complete and utter silence?

 "But my words, like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence."

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
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

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
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

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
And the sign said, the words of the 

prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence