[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