[00:03.23]Hello darkness my old friend
[00:07.71]I've come to talk with you again
[00:12.06]Because a vision softly creeping
[00:16.56]left its seeds while I was sleeping
[00:21.17]And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains
[00:31.17]within the sound of silence
[00:37.17]In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:41.15]narrrow streets and cobblestone
[00:45.38]Beneath the halo of a streetlamp
[00:49.83]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[00:54.25]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of the neon light that split the night
[01:03.60]And touched the sound of silence
[01:10.22]And in the naked light I saw
[01:13.63]ten thousand people maybe more
[01:17.83]People talking without speaking
[01:23.12]People hearing without listening
[01:27.63]People writing songs that voices never shared,
[01:33.89]no one dares to stir the sound of silence
[01:44.05]Fool,said I,you do not know
[01:48.45]silence,like a cancer,grows
[01:52.91]Hear my words and I might teach you
[01:57.66]Take my arms then I might reach you
[02:02.09]But my words like silent raindrops fell
[02:10.76]And echoed in the wells of silence
[02:18.73]And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they had made
[02:27.11]And the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming
[02:35.91]And the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls
[02:47.37]and whispered the sound of silence