| [0:00.217] | Hello darkness my old friend |
| [0:04.533] | I've come to talk with you again |
| [0:08.905] | Because a vision softly creeping |
| [0:13.479] | Left its seeds while I was sleeping |
| [0:17.857] | And the vision that was planted in my brain |
| [0:24.241] | Still remains |
| [0:27.311] | Within the sound of silence |
| [0:32.957] | In restless dreams I walked alone |
| [0:37.436] | Narrow streets of cobble stone |
| [0:41.632] | Bneath the halo of a street lamp |
| [0:45.669] | I turned my collar to the cold and damp |
| [0:50.386] | When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light |
| [0:56.851] | That split the night |
| [0:59.699] | And touched the sound of silence |
| [1:05.203] | And in the naked light I saw |
| [1:09.468] | Ten thousand people, maybe more |
| [1:13.931] | People talking without speaking |
| [1:18.491] | People hearing without listening |
| [1:22.465] | People writing songs that voices never share |
| [1:29.529] | And no one dared |
| [1:32.831] | Disturb the sound of silence |
| [1:38.350] | "Fools" said I, "you do not know. |
| [1:42.523] | "Silence like a cancer grows. |
| [1:46.696] | "Hear my words that I might teach you. |
| [1:50.900] | "Take my arms that I might reach you. |
| [1:55.032] | But my words like silent rain-drops fell |
| [2:03.920] | And echoed in the wells of silence |
| [2:10.736] | And the people bowed and prayed |
| [2:14.954] | To the neon god they made |
| [2:19.084] | And the sign flashed out its warning |
| [2:23.362] | In the words that it was forming |
| [2:27.565] | And the sign said "the words of the prophets |
| [2:30.777] | Are written on the subway walls and tenement halls" |
| [2:37.253] | And whispered in the sounds of silence |