Sounds of Silence

[00:05.27] Hello darkness, my old friend

[00:08.02] I've come to talk with you again

[00:11.77] Because a vision softly creeping

[00:16.52] Left its seeds while I was sleeping

[00:21.02] And the vision that was planted in my brain

[00:27.77] Still remains

[00:30.52] Within the sound of silence

[00:37.27] In restless dreams I walked alone

[00:41.52] Narrow streets of cobblestone

[00:46.51] 'Neath the halo of a street lamp

[00:51.02] I turned my collar to the cold and damp

[00:55.27] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

[01:02.01] That split the night

[01:06.27] And touched the sound of silence

[01:11.77] And in the naked light, I saw

[01:16.02] Ten thousand people, maybe more

[01:20.26] People talking without speaking

[01:25.27] People hearing without listening

[01:29.52] People writing songs that voices never share

[01:37.27] And no one dared

[01:40.78] Disturb the sound of silence

[01:46.51] "Fools", said I, "You do not know

[01:51.76] Silence like a cancer grows

[01:55.02] Hear my words that I might teach you

[01:59.76] Take my arms that I might reach you"

[02:04.02] But my words, like silent raindrops fell

[02:13.77] And echoed

[02:15.77] In the wells of silence

[02:21.02] And the people bowed and prayed

[02:25.02] To the neon god they made

[02:29.77] And the sign flashed out its warning

[02:34.02] In the words that it was forming

[02:40.27] And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

[02:46.27] And tenement halls"

[02:49.51] And whispered in the sound of silence