[ti:The Sound of Silence] [ar:Simon & Garfunkel] [al:Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village Vol.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sound Of Silence - Bob Dylan/Simon/Garfunkel [00:00.23]Written by:Paul Simon [00:00.47]Hello darkness my old friend [00:03.81] [00:04.78]I've come to talk with you again [00:08.12] [00:08.98]Because a vision softly creeping [00:12.88] [00:13.45]Left its seeds while I was sleeping [00:17.48] [00:18.01]And the vision that was planted in my brain [00:23.28] [00:24.20]Still remains [00:25.89] [00:27.59]Within the sound of silence [00:31.69] [00:33.12]In restless dreams I walked alone [00:36.23] [00:37.38]Narrow streets of cobblestone [00:39.83] [00:41.89]'Neath the halo of a street lamp [00:44.90] [00:45.87]I turned my collar to the cold and damp [00:50.32]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light [00:55.53] [00:56.80]That split the night [00:57.80] [00:59.96]And touched the sound of silence [01:03.75] [01:05.41]And in the naked light I saw [01:09.08] [01:09.63]Ten thousand people maybe more [01:12.97] [01:13.97]People talking without speaking [01:17.33] [01:18.25]People hearing without listening [01:21.32] [01:22.69]People writing songs that voices never share [01:28.66] [01:29.82]No one dared [01:31.33] [01:32.96]Disturb the sound of silence [01:37.16] [01:38.53]Fools said I you do not know [01:41.14] [01:42.65]Silence like a cancer grows [01:45.82] [01:46.86]Hear my words that I might teach you [01:49.94] [01:50.74]Take my arms that I might reach you [01:54.02] [01:55.16]But my words like silent raindrops fell [02:00.14] [02:04.61]And echoed in the wells of silence [02:09.04] [02:10.99]And the people bowed and prayed [02:14.16] [02:15.01]To the neon god they made [02:18.29] [02:19.26]And the sign flashed out its warning [02:22.19] [02:23.57]In the words that it was forming [02:27.43]And the sign said [02:29.03]The words of the prophets are [02:31.29]Written on the subway walls [02:33.67] [02:34.80]And tenement halls [02:36.15] [02:37.43]And whispered in the sounds of silence