[00:03.700]Hello darkness, my old friend
[00:07.700]I've come to talk with you again
[00:12.700]Because a vision softly creeping
[00:17.700]Left its seeds while I was sleeping
[00:21.700]And the vision that was planted in my brain
[00:28.700]Still remains within the sound of silence
[00:37.700]In restless dreams I walked alone
[00:42.700]Narrow streets of cobblestone
[00:46.700]'Neath the halo of a street lamp
[00:51.700]I turned my collar to the cold and damp
[00:55.700]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
[01:02.700]That split the night
[01:05.700]And touched the sound of silence
[01:11.700]And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more
[01:20.700]People talking without speaking people hearing without listening
[01:29.700]People writing songs that voices never share
[01:37.700]And no one dared disturb the sound of silence
[01:46.700]"Fools", said I, "You do not know
[01:50.700]Silence like a cancer grows
[01:55.700]Hear my words that I might teach you
[01:59.700]Take my arms that I might reach you"
[02:04.700]But my words, like silent raindrops, fell
[02:13.699]And echoed in the wells of silence
[02:20.699]And the people bowed and prayed
[02:25.699]To the neon god they made
[02:29.699]And the sign flashed out its warning
[02:33.699]In the words that it was forming
[02:38.699]And the sign said:"The words of the prophets are
[02:42.699]Written on the subway walls and tenement halls
[02:48.699]And whispered in the sound of silence."