[00:18.42]hello darkness my old friend
[00:22.06]love come to talk with you again
[00:26.64]because a vision softly creeping
[00:29.06]left its seeds while i was sleeping
[00:36.65]and the vision
[00:38.93]that was planted in my brain
[00:43.57]still remains
[00:48.08]within the sound of silence
[00:54.23]in restless dreams i walked alone
[00:58.99]narrow streets of cobblestone
[01:03.46]neath the halo of a street lamp
[01:08.10]i turned my collar to the cold and damp
[01:12.82]when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[01:19.95]that split the night and touched the sound of silence
[01:30.64]and in the naked light i saw
[01:35.14]ten thousand people maybe more
[01:40.02]people talking without speaking
[01:44.62]people hearing without listening
[01:49.47]people writing songs
[01:52.13]that voices never share
[01:56.26]no one dare disturb the sound of silence
[02:07.45]fools said i you do not know silence like a cancer grows
[02:16.80]hear my words that i might teach you
[02:21.23]take my arms that i might reach you
[02:25.94]but my words like silence raindrops fell
[02:33.20]and echoed in the wells of silence
[02:44.08]and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made
[02:53.24]and the sign flashed out its warning
[02:57.63]in the words that it was forming
[03:01.51]and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
[03:09.34]and tenement halls
[03:12.79]and whispered in the sounds of silence