[00:06.98]Hello darkness, my old friend
[00:12.92]I've come to talk with you again
[00:18.88]Because a vision softly creeping
[00:25.30]Left its seeds while I was sleeping
[00:31.30]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:41.05]Still remains
[00:44.20]Within the sound of silence
[00:52.44]In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:58.43]Narrow streets of cobblestone
[01:04.39]'Neath the halo of a street lamp
[01:11.10]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[01:17.01]When my eyes were stabbed by
[01:21.33]The flash of a neon light
[01:27.00]That split the night
[01:29.80]And touched the sound of silence
[01:37.52]And in the naked light I saw
[01:43.08]Ten thousand people, maybe more
[01:49.79]People talking without speaking
[01:56.24]People hearing without listening
[02:03.04]People writing songs that voices never share
[02:11.42]And no one dared
[02:15.27]Disturb the sound of silence
[02:23.08]"Fools", said I, "You do not know
[02:28.14]Silence like a cancer grows
[02:35.00]Hear my words that I might teach you
[02:41.35]Take my arms that I might reach you"
[02:48.11]But my words, like silent raindrops fell
[03:00.30]And echoed
[03:03.74]In the wells of silence
[03:11.30]And the people bowed and prayed
[03:17.01]To the neon god they made
[03:23.07]And the sign flashed out its warning
[03:30.16]In the words that it was forming
[03:35.27]And the sign said:
[03:38.52]The words of the prophets are
[03:41.61]Written on the subway walls
[03:47.14]And tenement halls
[03:52.13]And whispered in the sound of silence