[00:03.33]Hello darkness, my old friend
[00:07.62]I've come to talk with you again
[00:12.30]Because a vision softly creeping
[00:17.06]Left it's seeds while I was sleeping
[00:21.63]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:28.27]Still remains
[00:31.76]Within the sound of silence
[00:37.65]In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:42.29]Narrow streets of cobblestone
[00:46.79]'Neath the halo of a street lamp
[00:51.30]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[00:55.98]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[01:02.73]That split the night
[01:06.24]And touched the sound of silence
[01:12.06]And in the naked light I saw
[01:16.50]Ten thousand people, maybe more
[01:21.09]People talking without speaking
[01:25.55]People hearing without listening
[01:30.03]People writing songs that voices never share
[01:38.46]And no one dared
[01:41.95]Disturb the sound of silence
[01:47.67]Fools said I, you do not know
[01:52.02]Silence like a cancer grows
[01:56.41]Hear my words that I might teach you
[02:00.83]Take my arms that I might reach you
[02:05.29]But my words like silent raindrops fell
[02:14.66]And echoed in the wells of silence
[02:21.99]And the people bowed and prayed
[02:26.32]To the neon God they made
[02:30.89]And the sign flashed out it's warning
[02:35.24]In the words that it was forming
[02:39.72]And the signs said, 'The words of the prophets
[02:43.97]Are written on the subway walls and tenement halls
[02:50.66]And whispered in the sounds of silence
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