The Sound of Silence Original Version from 1964

[00:04.26] Hello darkness, my old friend

[00:07.45] I've come to talk with you again

[00:11.71] Because a vision softly creeping

[00:16.50] Left its seeds while I was sleeping

[00:20.22] And the vision that was planted in my brain

[00:29.92] Still remains

[00:32.31] Within the sound of silence

[00:36.82] In restless dreams, I walked alone

[00:41.61] Narrow streets of cobblestone

[00:46.12] 'Neath the halo of a street lamp

[00:50.65] I turned my collar to the cold and damp

[00:55.42] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

[01:02.31] That split the night

[01:05.78] And touched the sound of silence

[01:11.36] And in the naked light, I saw

[01:15.87] Ten thousand people, maybe more

[01:20.39] People talking without speaking

[01:24.89] People hearing without listening

[01:29.69] People writing songs that voices never shared

[01:37.12] And no one dared

[01:40.58] Disturb the sound of silence

[01:46.16] "Fools" said I, "You do not know

[01:50.94] Silence like a cancer grows

[01:54.92] Hear my words that I might teach you

[01:59.16] Take my arms that I might reach you"

[02:03.69] But my words, like silent raindrops fell

[02:10.32] And echoed in the wells of silence

[02:20.42] And the people bowed and prayed

[02:24.94] To the neon god they made

[02:29.19] And the sign flashed out its warning

[02:33.96] In the words that it was forming

[02:38.21] Then the sign said, "The words on the prophets are written on the subway walls

[02:45.65] In tenement halls"

[02:48.83] And whispered in the sound of silence