The sound of silence

[00:07.00] Hello, darkness, my old friend,

[00:11.50] I've come to talk with you again,

[00:17.50] Because a vision softly creeping,

[00:22.48] Left its seeds while I was sleeping,

[00:27.40] And the vision that was planted in my brain

[00:35.30] Still remains within the sound of silence.

[00:45.50] In restless dreams I walked alone

[00:51.38] Narrow streets of cobblestone

[00:57.40] 'Neath the halo of a street lamp,

[01:01.91] I turned my collar to the cold and damp.

[01:06.96] When my eyes were stabbed

[01:10.42] By the flash of a neon light

[01:15.46] That split the night,

[01:18.91] And touched the sound of silence.

[01:25.82] And in the naked light I saw

[01:31.40] Ten thousand people, maybe more,

[01:35.91] People talking without speaking,

[01:41.76] People hearing without listening.

[01:45.85] People writing songs

[01:49.85] That voices never share,

[01:55.20] And no one dare

[01:58.91] Disturb the sound of silence.

[02:10.34] "Fools", said I, "you do not know

[02:16.61] Silence like a cancer grows,

[02:21.56] Hear my words that I might teach you,

[02:25.54] Take my arms that I might reach to you."

[02:31.65] But my words like silent raindrops fell

[02:41.48] And echoed in the wells of silence.

[02:49.23] And the people bowed and prayed

[02:54.56] To the neon God they made,

[02:59.22] And the sign flashed out, it's warning,

[03:04.27] And the words that it was forming,

[03:10.13] And the sign said:

[03:11.93] "The words of the prophets

[03:13.89] Are written on the subway walls,

[03:19.09] And tenement halls,

[03:23.60] And whispered in the sound of silence.