[00:03.722]Hello darkness my old friend.
[00:08.242]I've come to talk with U again.
[00:12.682]Because a vision softly creeping.
[00:17.463]Left its seeds while I was sleeping.
[00:21.904]And the vision that was planted in my brain.
[00:28.565]Still remains.
[00:31.882]Within the sound of silence
[00:37.760]In restless dreams I walk alone.
[00:42.540]Narrow streets of cobble stone.
[00:47.138]'Neath the halo of a street lamp.
[00:51.500]I turned my collar to the cold & damp.
[00:56.176]When my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light.
[01:02.994]That split the night.
[01:06.260]And touched the sound of silence.
[01:12.033]And in the naked night I saw.
[01:16.395]Ten thousand people maybe more.
[01:21.254]People talking without speaking.
[01:25.564]People hearing without listening.
[01:30.031]People writing songs that voices never share.
[01:37.894]And no one dare.
[01:41.133]Disturb the sound of silence
[01:46.775]"Fool" said I "U do not know.
[01:51.268]"Silence like a cancer grows.
[01:55.526]Hear my words that I might teach U.
[01:59.967]"Take my arms that I might reach U.
[02:04.304]But my words like silent rain-drops fell
[02:14.073]And echoed in the wells of silence
[02:21.205]And the people bow & prayed.
[02:25.463]To the neon God they made.
[02:29.590]And the sign flash out its warning.
[02:34.841]In the words that it was forming
[02:38.472]And the sign said "The words of the prophers.
[02:41.946]Are written the subway walls & tenement halls".
[02:49.286]And whispered in the sounds of silence.