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 shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
據聞Freddie, 一位當時尚未出櫃的同性恋者、感到傍惶、忐忑不安。覺得快有人知道自己的性取向。曲中所謂殺死了正是他自已、那個異性恋且和Mary同居的男子。最後他唱出 nothing really matters 準備公開同性取向、並高叫mamamia let me go , 希望瑪莉放過自己。但Freddie 自己宣稱歌詞無特别含義