[00:07.546]Hello darkness, my old friend
[00:11.871]I've come to talk with you again
[00:16.384]Because a vision softly creeping
[00:21.210]Left its seeds while I was sleeping
[00:25.792]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:32.600]Still remains within the sound of silence
[00:41.745]In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:46.431]Narrow streets of cobblestone
[00:51.089]'Neath the halo of a street lamp
[00:55.521]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[01:00.109]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[01:06.785]That split the night and touched the sound of silence
[01:15.848]And in the naked light I saw
[01:20.418]Ten thousand people, maybe more
[01:25.144]People talking without speaking
[01:30.297]People hearing without listening
[01:33.705]People writing songs that voices never share
[01:41.357]And no one dared disturb the sound of silence
[01:50.438]"Fools", said I, "You do not know“
[01:55.093]Silence like a cancer grows
[01:59.542]Hear my words that I might teach you
[02:04.127]Take my arms that I might reach you"
[02:08.717]But my words, like silent raindrops fell
[02:18.183]And echoed in the wells of silence
[02:24.971]And the people bowed and prayed
[02:29.292]To the neon god they made
[02:33.932]And the sign flashed out its warning
[02:38.461]In the words that it was forming and the sign said
[02:43.131]The words of the prophets are written
[02:46.845]On the subway walls and tenement halls
[02:52.549]And whispered in the sounds of silence