1-07 The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)

[00:03.72] Hello darkness, my old friend

[00:08.57] I've come to talk with you again

[00:13.24] Because a vision softly is creeping

[00:18.63] Left its seeds while I was sleeping

[00:23.92] And the vision that was planted in my brain

[00:31.16] Still remains within the sound of silence

[00:42.03] In restless dreams, I walked alone

[00:47.35] Narrow streets of cobblestone

[00:52.77] 'Neath the halo of a street lamp

[00:57.69] I turned my collar to the cold and damp

[01:03.74] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

[01:11.34] That split the night, and touched the sound of silence

[01:22.12] And in the naked light I saw

[01:27.23] Ten thousand people, maybe more

[01:33.29] People talking without speaking

[01:38.37] People hearing without listening

[01:43.90] People writing songs that voices never shared

[01:52.95] And no one dared disturb the sound of silence

[02:03.57] "Fools," said I, "You do not know

[02:08.92] Silence like a cancer grows

[02:14.62] Hear my words that I might teach you

[02:19.82] Take my arms that I might reach you"

[02:24.49] But my words, like silent raindrops, fell

[02:35.65] And echoed in the wells of silence

[02:43.28] --

[03:24.35] And the people bowed and prayed

[03:29.51] To the neon god they made

[03:34.39] And the sign flashed out its warning

[03:39.67] In the words that it was forming

[03:44.91] And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls

[03:57.54] And whispered in the sound of silence"