[00:20.930]hello darkness my old friend.
[00:30.420]i've come to talk with you again.
[00:37.800]because a vision softly creeping.
[00:43.610]left its seeds while i was sleeping.
[00:49.110]and the vision that was planted in my brain.
[00:59.750]still remains.
[01:02.190]within the sound of silence !
[01:09.250]in restless dreams i walk along.
[01:16.810]narrow streets of cobble stone
[01:20.310]'neath the halo of a street lamp.
[01:26.500]i turned my collar to the cold damp.
[01:33.380]when my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light
[01:41.000]that split the night..
[01:46.750]and touched the sound of silence.
[02:05.270]and in the naked light i saw.
[02:10.640]ten thousand people, maybe more.
[02:17.390]people talking without speaking.
[02:21.770]people hearing without listening.
[02:28.370]people writing songs that voices never share.
[02:36.000]and no one dare.
[02:42.430]disturb the sound of silence.
[02:54.430]"fool" said i "you do not know.
[03:00.560]"silence like a cancer grows..
[03:05.810]"hear my words that i might teach you.
[03:11.000]"take my arms that i might reach you.
[03:18.620]but my words like silent rain-drops fell.
[03:26.120]and echoed in the wells of silence.
[03:38.310]and the people bowed and prayed.
[03:44.750]to the neon god they made.
[03:49.870]and the sign flashed out its warning.
[03:55.370]in the words that it was forming.
[04:00.620]and the sign said "the words of the prophets.
[04:08.850]are written on the subway walls tenement halls".
[04:13.410]and whispered in the sounds of silence. in the sounds of silence. in the sounds of silence.