| [00:19.010] | Hello darkness my old friend |
| [00:22.640] | love come to talk with you again |
| [00:27.300] | Because a vision softly creeping |
| [00:32.220] | left its seeds while I was sleeping |
| [00:36.990] | And the vision |
| [00:39.250] | that was planted in my brain |
| [00:43.950] | Still remains |
| [00:49.010] | within the sound of silence |
| [00:54.140] | |
| [00:54.520] | In restless dreams I walked alone |
| [00:59.360] | narrow streets of cobblestone |
| [01:03.710] | Neath the halo of a street lamp |
| [01:08.530] | I turned my collar to the cold and damp |
| [01:13.440] | When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light |
| [01:20.380] | That split the night and touched the sound of silence |
| [01:31.220] | And in the naked light I saw |
| [01:36.280] | ten thousand people maybe more |
| [01:40.690] | People talking without speaking |
| [01:45.410] | people hearing without listening |
| [01:49.950] | People writing songs |
| [01:52.520] | that voices never share |
| [01:56.880] | No one dare disturb the sound of silence |
| [02:07.620] | Fools said I you do not know silence like a cancer grows |
| [02:17.050] | Hear my words that I might teach you |
| [02:21.630] | take my arms that I might reach you |
| [02:26.440] | But my words like silence raindrops fell |
| [02:33.630] | And echoed in the wells of silence |
| [02:44.180] | And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made |
| [02:53.560] | And the sign flashed out its warning |
| [02:58.240] | in the words that it was forming |
| [03:01.780] | And the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls |
| [03:09.710] | And tenement halls |
| [03:12.730] | and whispered in the sounds of silence |
| [03:22.600] |