[00:02.001][00:03.353][00:03.506]Hello darkness my old friend.[00:07.613]I've come to talk with you again.[00:12.185]Because a vision softly creeping.[00:16.751]Left its seeds while I was sleeping.[00:21.202]And the vision that was planted in my brain.[00:27.766]Still remains.[00:30.977]Within the sound of silence[00:36.129][00:36.400]In restless dreams I walked alone.[00:41.108]Narrow streets of cobble stone.[00:45.565]'Neath the halo of a street lamp.[00:49.773]I turned my collar to the cold & damp.[00:54.518]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light.[01:00.874]That split the night.[01:04.400]And touched the sound of silence.[01:09.994][01:10.586]And in the naked light I saw.[01:14.191]Ten thousand people maybe more.[01:18.947]People talking without speaking.[01:23.401]People hearing without listening.[01:27.875]People writing songs that voices never share.[01:35.384]And no one dare.[01:38.783]Disturb the sound of silence[01:44.531]"Fool" said I "you do not know.[01:48.952]"Silence like a cancer grows.[01:53.383]Hear my words that I might teach you.[01:57.834]"Take my arms that I might reach you.[02:02.310]But my words like silent raindrops fell[02:08.933][02:12.031]And echoed in the wells of silence[02:16.200][02:18.969]And the people bowed & prayed.[02:23.376]To the neon God they made.[02:27.821]And the sign flash out its warning.[02:32.295]In the words that it was forming[02:36.702]And the sign said "The words of the prophets.[02:40.094]Are written on the subway walls tenement halls".[02:47.417]And whispered in the sounds of silence.[02:50.150]