[00:20.070]Hello darkness my old friend.
[00:23.690]I've come 2 talk with U again.
[00:28.170]Because a vision softly creeping.
[00:31.880]Left its seeds while I was sleeping.
[00:37.440]And the vision that was planted in my brain.
[00:43.130]Still remains.
[00:47.910]Within the sound of silence
[00:53.460]In restless dreams I walk alone.
[00:58.040]Narrow streets of cobble stone.
[01:02.460]'Neath the halo of a street lamp.
[01:06.780]I turned my collar 2 the cold & damp.
[01:11.530]When my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light.
[01:18.630]That split the night.
[01:22.380]And touched the sound of silence.
[01:27.660]And in the naked night I saw.
[01:32.150]Ten thousand people maybe more.
[01:37.300]People talking without speaking.
[01:41.350]People hearing without listening.
[01:46.000]People writing songs that voices never share.
[01:53.420]And no one dare.
[01:56.780]Disturb the sound of silence.
[02:02.890]"Fool" said I "U do not know."
[02:07.080]"Silence like a cancer grows."
[02:11.360]Hear my words that I might teach U."
[02:16.000]"Take my arms that I might reach U."
[02:20.170]But my words like silent rain-drops fell.
[02:29.580]And echoed in the wells of silence.
[02:37.000]And the people bow & prayed.
[02:41.280]To the neon God they made.
[02:45.470]And the sign flash out its warning.
[02:50.020]In the words that it was forming
[02:54.300]And the sign said "The words of the prophers.
[02:58.020]Are written the subway walls & tenement halls".
[03:05.210]And whispered in the sounds of silence.