[00:52.21]Hello darkness, my old friend
[00:57.17]I've come to talk with you again
[01:01.75]Because a vision softly creeping
[01:08.10]Left its seeds while I was sleeping
[01:15.71]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[01:22.66]Still remains
[01:26.38]Within the sound of silence
[01:32.58]In restless dreams I walked alone
[01:37.44]Narrow streets of cobblestone
[01:42.49]'Neath the halo of a street lamp
[01:48.51]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[01:56.52]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[02:04.21]That split the night
[02:07.32]And touched the sound of silence
[02:57.11]And in the naked light I saw
[03:01.73]Ten thousand people, maybe more
[03:06.94]People talking without speaking
[03:13.33]People hearing without listening
[03:19.33]People writing songs that voices never share
[03:27.75]And no one dared
[03:32.64]Disturb the sound of silence
[03:37.88]"Fools", said I, "You do not know
[03:42.93]Silence like a cancer grows
[03:47.62]Hear my words that I might teach you
[03:53.87]Take my arms that I might reach you"
[04:01.32]But my words, like silent raindrops fell
[04:11.67]And echoed
[04:15.89]In the wells of silence
[04:20.01]And the people bowed and prayed
[04:24.83]To the neon god they made
[04:29.77]And the sign flashed out its warning
[04:36.05]In the words that it was forming
[04:43.13]And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
[04:50.15]And tenement halls"
[04:53.74]And whispered in the sounds of silence