[01:17.407]Hello darkness, my old friend,
[01:21.860]I've come to talk with you again,
[01:26.799]Because a vision softly creeping,
[01:31.759]Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
[01:40.415]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[01:46.871]Still remains
[01:49.840]Within the sound of silence.
[02:00.670]
[02:20.176]In restless dreams I walked alone
[02:25.058]Narrow streets of cobblestone,
[02:30.120]'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
[02:34.708]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[02:40.867]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[02:47.141]That split the night
[02:50.470]And touched the sound of silence.
[02:59.012]
[03:01.639]And the people bowed and prayed
[03:05.094]To the neon god they made.
[03:08.501]"Fools" said I, "You do not know
[03:12.239]Silence like a cancer grows.
[03:15.795]
[03:32.715]And in the naked light I saw
[03:37.539]Ten thousand people, maybe more.
[03:42.631]People talking without speaking,
[03:47.778]People hearing without listening,
[03:52.066]
[04:09.589]And the sign flashed out its warning,
[04:14.185]In the words that it was forming.
[04:18.682], "The words of the prophets
[04:20.925]Are written on the subway walls
[04:24.420]And tenement halls."
[04:28.324]And whispered in the sounds of silence.
[04:48.254]
[04:57.810]"Fools" said I, "You do not know
[05:00.196]Silence like a cancer grows.
[05:02.462]Hear my words that I might teach you,
[05:04.952]Take my arms that I might reach you."