Sound of Silence

Song Sound of Silence
Artist Paul Simon
Album The Paul Simon Songbook

Lyrics

[00:06.690] Hello darkness my old friend.
[00:09.799] I've come to talk with you again.
[00:14.799] Because a vision softly creeping
[00:19.800] Left its seeds while I was sleeping.
[00:23.800] And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:30.800] Still remains within the sound of silence
[00:40.680] In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:45.680] narrow streets of cobblestone
[00:49.680] Neath the halo of a streetlamp,
[00:54.680] I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[00:58.680] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[01:04.780] split the night
[01:08.690] And touched the sound of silence
[01:14.690] And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more
[01:23.690] People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening
[01:32.690] People writing songs that voices never shared, and no one dared
[01:42.690] To stir the sound of silence
[01:49.690] Fool, said I, you do not know
[01:53.690] silence, like a cancer, grows
[01:58.690] Hear my words and I might teach you
[02:02.690] take my arms then I might reach you
[02:07.690] But my words, like silent raindrops fell
[02:15.799] and echoed in the wells of silence
[02:22.799] And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they'd made
[02:32.399] And the sign flashed its warning in the words that it was forming
[02:41.399] And the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
[02:51.399] And tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence