The Sound of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains

Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams, I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a streetlamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

<span begin="1:19.469" end="1:24.688">And in the naked light, I saw</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:21.858" end="1:24.192">(In the light, I saw)</span></span>

<span begin="1:24.706" end="1:29.821">Ten thousand people, maybe more</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:27.070" end="1:29.803">(Maybe more)</span></span>

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dare disturb the sound of silence

<span begin="1:58.536" end="2:05.012">Of silence, of silence</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:59.743" end="2:05.000">(Of silence)</span></span>

<span begin="2:04.906" end="2:09.981">Fools said, "Ah, you do not know"</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:06.951" end="2:11.420">(Do not know, you do not know)</span></span>

<span begin="2:10.052" end="2:15.046">Silence, like a cancer, grows</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:12.087" end="2:17.220">(Oh it grows, oh)</span></span>

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms and I might reach you

But my words like silent raindrops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god, they made

And the signs are shouting its warning

And the words that it was, was forming

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls, and in tenement halls

And whispered in the sound of silence"