Sound of silence

[00:03.62] Hello darkness, my old friend

[00:07.86] I've come to talk with you again

[00:12.39] Because a vision softly creeping

[00:17.14] Left its seeds while I was sleeping

[00:21.67] And the vision that was planted in my brain

[00:28.62] Still remains within the sound of silence

[00:37.62] In restless dreams, I walked alone

[00:42.39] Narrow streets of cobblestone

[00:46.89] 'Neath the halo of a street lamp

[00:51.37] I turned my collar to the cold and damp

[00:55.86] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

[01:02.63] That split the night, and touched the sound of silence

[01:12.12] And in the naked light I saw

[01:16.38] Ten thousand people, maybe more

[01:21.12] People talking without speaking

[01:25.62] People hearing without listening

[01:29.88] People writing songs that voices never shared

[01:37.87] And no one dared disturb the sound of silence

[01:47.12] "Fools," said I, "You do not know

[01:51.37] Silence like a cancer grows

[01:55.66] Hear my words that I might teach you

[02:00.12] Take my arms that I might reach you"

[02:04.37] But my words, like silent raindrops, fell

[02:13.87] And echoed in the wells of silence

[02:21.37] And the people bowed and prayed

[02:26.37] To the neon god they made

[02:29.86] And the sign flashed out its warning

[02:34.39] In the words that it was forming

[02:38.62] And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls

[02:49.64] And whispered in the sound of silence"