[00:15.623][00:16.439]Hello darkness my old friend.[00:21.856]I've come to talk with you again.[00:27.356]Because a vision softly creeping.[00:33.323]Left its seeds while I was sleeping.[00:38.906]And the vision that was planted in my brain.[00:47.256]Still remains.[00:49.889]Within the sound of silence[00:55.440][00:56.539]In restless dreams I walked alone.[01:02.473]Narrow streets of cobble stone.[01:08.174]'Neath the halo of a street lamp.[01:13.056]I turned my collar to the cold & damp.[01:18.806]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light.[01:26.990]That split the night.[01:29.624]And touched the sound of silence.[01:36.423][01:36.839]And in the naked light I saw.[01:41.956]Ten thousand people maybe more.[01:47.639]People talking without speaking.[01:53.556]People hearing without listening.[01:59.189]People writing songs that voices never share.[02:07.639]And no one dare.[02:10.805]Disturb the sound of silence[02:17.589]"Fool" said I "you do not know.[02:23.005]"Silence like a cancer grows.[02:28.906]Hear my words that I might teach you.[02:33.989]"Take my arms that I might reach you.[02:39.839]But my words like silent raindrops fell[02:49.190][02:50.173]And echoed in the wells of silence[03:01.472][03:18.057]And the people bowed & prayed.[03:23.355]To the neon God they made.[03:28.656]And the sign flash out its warning.[03:34.839]In the words that it was forming[03:40.440]And the sign said "The words of the prophets.[03:44.689]Are written on the subway walls tenement halls".[03:51.689]And whispered in the sounds of silence.[04:00.606]