[00:03.570]Hello darkness my old friend.
[00:07.190]I've come 2 talk with U again.
[00:11.670]Because a vision softly creeping.
[00:15.680]Left its seeds while I was sleeping.
[00:21.240]And the vision that was planted in my brain.
[00:27.530]Still remains.
[00:31.710]Within the sound of silence
[00:37.260]In restless dreams I walk alone.
[00:41.840]Narrow streets of cobble stone.
[00:46.260]'Neath the halo of a street lamp.
[00:50.580]I turned my collar 2 the cold & damp.
[00:55.630]When my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light.
[01:02.730]That split the night.
[01:06.480]And touched the sound of silence.
[01:11.760]And in the naked night I saw.
[01:16.250]Ten thousand people maybe more.
[01:21.400]People talking without speaking.
[01:25.450]People hearing without listening.
[01:30.100]People writing songs that voices never share.
[01:38.120]And no one dare.
[01:41.780]Disturb the sound of silence.
[01:47.890]"Fool" said I "U do not know."
[01:52.380]"Silence like a cancer grows."
[01:56.660]Hear my words that I might teach U."
[02:01.300]"Take my arms that I might reach U."
[02:05.470]But my words like silent rain-drops fell.
[02:15.480]And echoed in the wells of silence.
[02:23.500]And the people bow & prayed.
[02:27.780]To the neon God they made.
[02:31.970]And the sign flash out its warning.
[02:36.520]In the words that it was forming
[02:40.800]And the sign said "The words of the prophers.
[02:44.520]Are written the subway walls & tenement halls".
[02:51.710]And whispered in the sounds of silence.