[00:03.83]hello darkness my old friend.
[00:08.32]i've come to talk with you again.
[00:10.37]
[00:12.70]because a vision softly creeping.
[00:14.81]
[00:17.51]left its seeds while i was sleeping.
[00:19.87]
[00:22.01]and the vision that was planted in my brain.
[00:26.94]
[00:28.65]still remains.
[00:29.70]
[00:32.09]within the sound of silence !
[00:36.20]
[00:38.15]in restless dreams i walk along.
[00:39.89]
[00:42.71]narrow streets of cobble stone
[00:44.26]
[00:47.21]'neath the halo of a street lamp.
[00:49.70]
[00:51.40]i turned my collar to the cold damp.
[00:53.45]
[00:56.28]when my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light
[01:01.08]
[01:02.90]that split the night..
[01:04.20]
[01:06.65]and touched the sound of silence.
[01:08.45]
[01:12.17]and in the naked light i saw.
[01:14.47]
[01:16.54]ten thousand people, maybe more.
[01:18.59]
[01:21.29]people talking without speaking.
[01:22.97]
[01:25.67]people hearing without listening.
[01:27.09]
[01:30.27]people writing songs that voices never share.
[01:35.95]
[01:37.90]and no one dare.
[01:39.20]
[01:41.33]disturb the sound of silence.
[01:43.76]
[01:47.33]"fool" said i "you do not know.
[01:49.38]
[01:51.46]"silence like a cancer grows..
[01:53.26]
[01:55.71]"hear my words that i might teach you.
[01:58.95]
[01:59.90]"take my arms that i might reach you.
[02:02.82]
[02:04.52]but my words like silent rain-drops fell.
[02:09.20]
[02:14.02]and echoed in the wells of silence.
[02:18.88]
[02:21.21]and the people bowed and prayed.
[02:23.01]
[02:25.65]to the neon god they made.
[02:27.38]
[02:29.77]and the sign flashed out its warning.
[02:31.82]
[02:34.27]in the words that it was forming.
[02:36.07]
[02:38.52]and the sign said "the words of the prophets.
[02:41.57]
[02:42.75]are written on the subway walls tenement halls".
[02:46.93]
[02:49.31]and whispered in the sounds of silence.