The sound of silence

[00:03.80] Hello darkness, my old friend

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

[00:12.28] Because a vision softly creeping

[00:17.03] Left its seeds while I was sleeping

[00:21.81] And the vision that was planted in my brain

[00:28.27] Still remains

[00:31.52] Within the sound of silence

[00:37.52] In restless dreams I walked alone

[00:42.28] Narrow streets of cobblestone

[00:46.78] 'Neath the halo of a street lamp

[00:51.27] I turned my collar to the cold and damp

[00:55.78] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

[01:02.55] That split the night

[01:06.02] And touched the sound of silence

[01:12.02] And in the naked light I saw

[01:16.54] Ten thousand people, maybe more

[01:21.03] People talking without speaking

[01:25.52] People hearing without listening

[01:30.27] People writing songs that voices never share

[01:37.77] And no one dared

[01:41.03] Disturb the sound of silence

[01:47.55] "Fools, " said I, "You do not know

[01:51.29] Silence, like a cancer, grows

[01:55.77] Hear my words that I might teach you

[01:59.78] Take my arms that I might reach you"

[02:04.77] But my words, like silent raindrops fell

[02:11.04] And echoed in the wells, of silence

[02:21.77] And the people bowed and prayed

[02:25.78] To the neon god they made

[02:30.04] And the sign flashed out its warning

[02:34.54] In the words that it was forming

[02:39.02] And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

[02:46.77] And tenement halls"

[02:50.02] And whispered in the sounds of silence