[00:03.570]Hello darkness my old friend.
[00:07.190]I've come 2 talk with U again.
[00:11.670]Because a vision softly creeping.
[00:15.380]Left its seeds while I was sleeping.
[00:20.940]And the vision that was planted in my brain.
[00:26.630]Still remains.
[00:31.410]Within the sound of silence
[00:36.960]In restless dreams I walk alone.
[00:41.540]Narrow streets of cobble stone.
[00:45.960]'Neath the halo of a street lamp.
[00:50.280]I turned my collar 2 the cold & damp.
[00:55.030]When my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light.
[01:02.130]That split the night.
[01:05.880]And touched the sound of silence.
[01:11.160]And in the naked night I saw.
[01:15.650]Ten thousand people maybe more.
[01:20.800]People talking without speaking.
[01:24.850]People hearing without listening.
[01:29.500]People writing songs that voices never share.
[01:36.920]And no one dare.
[01:40.280]Disturb the sound of silence.
[01:46.390]"Fool" said I "U do not know."
[01:50.580]"Silence like a cancer grows."
[01:54.860]Hear my words that I might teach U."
[01:59.500]"Take my arms that I might reach U."
[02:03.670]But my words like silent rain-drops fell.
[02:13.080]And echoed in the wells of silence.
[02:20.500]And the people bow & prayed.
[02:24.780]To the neon God they made.
[02:28.970]And the sign flash out its warning.
[02:33.520]In the words that it was forming
[02:37.800]And the sign said "The words of the prophers.
[02:41.520]Are written the subway walls & tenement halls".
[02:48.710]And whispered in the sounds of silence.