[00:52.43]Hello, darkness my old friend,[00:57.47]I've come to talk with you again[01:02.52]Because a vision softly creeping[01:07.58]Left its seeds while I was sleeping[01:12.88]And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains[01:24.90]Within the sound of silence[01:31.66]In restless dreams, I walked alone[01:36.80]narrow streets of cobblestone[01:41.26]'Neath the halo of a street lamp[01:47.06]I turned my collar to the cold and damp[01:52.56]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light[02:01.22]That split the night and touched the sound of silence.[02:11.45]And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more[02:20.92]People talking without speaking,[02:27.06]people hearing without listening[02:31.88]People writing songs that voices never shared and no one dared[02:45.02]Disturb the sound of silence[02:52.10]'Fools' said I 'You do not know,[02:56.60]silence like a cancer grows.[03:00.80]Hear my words that I might teach you[03:06.89]Take my arms that I might reach you'.[03:12.00]But my words like silent raindrops fell[03:19.55]And echoed in the wells of silence[03:31.71]And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made[03:40.68]And the sign flashed out its warning,[03:46.90] in the words that it was forming.[03:52.08]And the sign said the words of the prophets[03:56.78]Are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered[04:08.43]in the sound of silence,