| [00:18.42] | hello darkness my old friend |
| [00:22.06] | love come to talk with you again |
| [00:26.64] | because a vision softly creeping |
| [00:29.06] | left its seeds while i was sleeping |
| [00:36.65] | and the vision |
| [00:38.93] | that was planted in my brain |
| [00:43.57] | still remains |
| [00:48.08] | within the sound of silence |
| [00:54.23] | in restless dreams i walked alone |
| [00:58.99] | narrow streets of cobblestone |
| [01:03.46] | neath the halo of a street lamp |
| [01:08.10] | i turned my collar to the cold and damp |
| [01:12.82] | when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light |
| [01:19.95] | that split the night and touched the sound of silence |
| [01:30.64] | and in the naked light i saw |
| [01:35.14] | ten thousand people maybe more |
| [01:40.02] | people talking without speaking |
| [01:44.62] | people hearing without listening |
| [01:49.47] | people writing songs |
| [01:52.13] | that voices never share |
| [01:56.26] | no one dare disturb the sound of silence |
| [02:07.45] | fools said i you do not know silence like a cancer grows |
| [02:16.80] | hear my words that i might teach you |
| [02:21.23] | take my arms that i might reach you |
| [02:25.94] | but my words like silence raindrops fell |
| [02:33.20] | and echoed in the wells of silence |
| [02:44.08] | and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made |
| [02:53.24] | and the sign flashed out its warning |
| [02:57.63] | in the words that it was forming |
| [03:01.51] | and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls |
| [03:09.34] | and tenement halls |
| [03:12.79] | and whispered in the sounds of silence |