[00:01.090]hello darkness my old friend
[00:05.640]i've come to talk with you again
[00:10.600]because a vision softly creeping
[00:14.040]left its seeds while i was sleeping
[00:18.670]and the vision that was planted
[00:23.280]in my brain still remains
[00:29.300]within the sound of silence
[00:35.219]in restless dreams i walked along
[00:38.999]narrow streets of cobble stone
[00:43.259]beneath the halo of a street lamp
[00:48.449]i turned my collar to the cold and damp
[00:53.599]when my eyes were stabbed
[00:58.109]by the flash of a neon light
[01:02.429]that split the light
[01:05.418]and touched the sound of silence
[01:11.479]and in the naked light i saw
[01:15.829]ten thousand people maybe more
[01:20.819]people talking without speaking
[01:25.409]people hearing without listening
[01:30.590]people writing songs that voices never share
[01:37.549]and no one dare
[01:41.290]disturb the sound of silence
[01:46.489]"fool" said i,"you do not know
[01:51.499]silence like a cancer grows
[01:55.509]hear my words that i might teach you
[02:01.199]take my arms that i might reach you"
[02:05.140]but my words like silent raindrops fell
[02:12.310]and echoed in the walls of silence
[02:22.510]and the people bowed and prayed
[02:26.370]to the neon god they made
[02:30.810]and the sign flashed out its warning
[02:35.890]in the words that it was forming
[02:40.480]and the signs said "the words of the prophets
[02:43.920]are written on the subway walls
[02:47.700]and tenement halls"
[02:51.040]whispering in the sounds of silence