[00:16.23]Hello, darkness my old friend
[00:20.68]I've come to talk with you again
[00:23.48]Because a vision softly creeping
[00:29.33]Left its seeds while I was sleeping
[00:33.79]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:40.69]still remains
[00:45.04]Within the sound of silence, silence
[00:55.02]In restless dreams, I walked alone
[00:59.66]narrow streets of cobblestone
[01:03.85]'Neath the halo of a street lamp
[01:08.85]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[01:13.25]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[01:19.88]That split the night
[01:23.56]and touched the sound of silence
[01:29.73]And in the naked light I saw
[01:33.81]ten thousand people, maybe more
[01:38.92]People talking without speaking
[01:43.66]people hearing without listening
[01:47.86]People writing songs that voices never shared
[01:55.97]and no one dared
[01:59.72]Disturb the sound of silence, silence
[02:10.52]'Fools' said I 'You do not know
[02:14.49]silence like a cancer grows
[02:19.24]Hear my words that I might teach you
[02:23.93]Take my arms that I might reach you
[02:28.62]But my words like silent raindrops fell
[02:36.49]And echoed in the wells of silence
[02:46.45]the silence
[02:49.20]And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made
[02:58.68]And the sign flashed out its warning
[03:03.33]in the words that it was forming
[03:07.67]And the sign said the words of the prophets
[03:11.49]Are written on the subway walls
[03:15.43]and tenement halls and whispered
[03:19.97]And whispered in the sound of silence
[03:31.25]in the sound of silence
[03:40.63]In the sound, the sound of silence,
[03:49.32]in the sound of silence
[03:57.88]The sound of silence, silence