[00:40.26]Hello darkness, my old friend,[00:44.25]I've come to talk with you again,[00:48.45]Because a vision softly creeping,[00:53.73]Left its seeds while I was sleeping,[01:00.42]And the vision that was planted in my brain[01:03.45]Still remains[01:04.23]Within the sound of silence.[02:22.05]In restless dreams I walked alone[02:26.31]Narrow streets of cobblestone,[02:28.50]'Neath the halo of a street lamp,[02:34.71]I turned my collar to the cold and damp[02:39.12]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light[02:45.27]That split the night[02:48.96]And touched the sound of silence.[02:55.89]And in the naked light I saw[02:57.60]Ten thousand people, maybe more.[03:00.72]People talking without speaking,[03:01.35]People hearing without listening,[03:01.98]People writing songs that voices never share[03:06.33]And no one dared[03:06.69]Disturb the sound of silence.[03:07.59]"Fools," said I, "You do not know.[03:09.90]Silence like a cancer grows.[03:10.50]Hear my words that I might teach you.[03:11.16]Take my arms that I might reach you."[03:13.29]But my words like silent raindrops fell[03:14.28]And echoed in the wells of silence[03:18.06]And the people bowed and prayed[03:18.72]To the neon god they made.[03:57.75]And the sign flashed out its warning[03:58.47]In the words that it was forming.[03:59.16]And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls[04:31.08]And tenement halls[04:34.14]And whispered in the sounds of silence."