[00:00.517]Hello darkness my old friend
[00:04.833]I've come to talk with you again
[00:09.205]Because a vision softly creeping
[00:13.779]Left its seeds while I was sleeping
[00:18.157]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:24.541]Still remains
[00:27.611]Within the sound of silence
[00:33.257]In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:37.736]Narrow streets of cobble stone
[00:41.932]Bneath the halo of a street lamp
[00:45.969]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[00:50.686]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[00:57.151]That split the night
[00:59.999]And touched the sound of silence
[01:05.503]And in the naked light I saw
[01:09.768]Ten thousand people, maybe more
[01:14.230]People talking without speaking
[01:18.790]People hearing without listening
[01:22.765]People writing songs that voices never share
[01:29.828]And no one dared
[01:33.131]Disturb the sound of silence
[01:38.650]"Fools" said I, "you do not know.
[01:42.822]"Silence like a cancer grows.
[01:46.995]"Hear my words that I might teach you.
[01:51.200]"Take my arms that I might reach you.
[01:55.331]But my words like silent rain-drops fell
[02:04.219]And echoed in the wells of silence
[02:11.036]And the people bowed and prayed
[02:15.253]To the neon god they made
[02:19.383]And the sign flashed out its warning
[02:23.662]In the words that it was forming
[02:27.865]And the sign said "the words of the prophets
[02:31.076]Are written on the subway walls and tenement halls"
[02:37.553]And whispered in the sounds of silence