The sound of silence

[00:03.81] Hello darkness, my old friend

[00:07.25] I've come to talk with you again

[00:12.30] Because a vision softly creeping

[00:16.55] Left its seeds while I was sleeping

[00:21.33] And the vision that was planted in my brain

[00:27.17] Still remains

[00:31.69] Within the sound of silence

[00:37.55] In restless dreams I walked alone

[00:41.80] Narrow streets of cobblestone

[00:46.57] 'Neath the halo of a street lamp

[00:50.55] I turned my collar to the cold and damp

[00:55.06] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

[01:02.77] That split the night

[01:06.22] And touched the sound of silence

[01:12.08] And in the naked light I saw

[01:16.08] Ten thousand people, maybe more

[01:20.32] People talking without speaking

[01:24.85] People hearing without listening

[01:29.08] People writing songs that voices never share

[01:37.87] No one dared

[01:39.72] Disturb the sound of silence

[01:48.22] "Fools" said I, "You do not know

[01:51.13] Silence like a cancer grows

[01:54.87] Hear my words that I might teach you

[01:59.38] Take my arms that I might reach you"

[02:03.08] But my words like silent raindrops fell

[02:12.38] And echoed in the wells of silence

[02:21.16] And the people bowed and prayed

[02:24.87] To the neon god they made

[02:29.39] And the sign flashed out its warning

[02:33.38] In the words that it was forming

[02:38.43] And the sign said, "The words of the prophets

[02:42.14] Are written on the subway walls

[02:46.38] And tenement halls

[02:49.31] And whispered in the sounds of silence"