[00:09.86]Hello darkness, my old friend,
[00:14.23]I've come to talk with you again,
[00:18.87]Because a vision softly creeping,
[00:23.65]Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
[00:28.58]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:35.38]Still remains
[00:38.96]Within the sound of silence.
[00:44.91]In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:49.86]Narrow streets of cobblestone,
[00:54.18]'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
[00:58.91]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[01:03.73]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[01:10.70]That split the night
[01:14.22]And touched the sound of silence.
[01:20.15]And in the naked light I saw
[01:24.62]Ten thousand people, maybe more.
[01:29.69]People talking without speaking,
[01:34.40]People hearing without listening,
[01:39.37]People writing songs that voices never share
[01:47.19]And no one dare
[01:50.67]Disturb the sound of silence.
[01:56.75]'Fools' said I, 'You do not know
[02:01.36]Silence like a cancer grows.
[02:06.24]Hear my words that I might teach you,
[02:10.88]Take my arms that I might reach you.'
[02:15.63]But my words like silent raindrops fell,
[02:25.55]And echoed
[02:27.58]In the wells of silence
[02:33.26]And the people bowed and prayed
[02:37.98]To the neon god they made.
[02:42.56]And the sign flashed out its warning,
[02:47.35]In the words that it was forming.
[02:52.08]And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
[03:00.05]And tenement halls.'
[03:03.18]And whisper'd in the sounds of silence