[ti:The Sounds of Silence] [ar:Simon & Garfunkel] [al:Wednesday Morning, 3 a.M.] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel [00:01.10]Lyrics by:Paul Simon [00:02.21]Composed by:Paul Simon [00:03.32]Hello darkness my old friend [00:07.80]I've come to talk with you again [00:12.27]Because a vision softly creeping [00:16.99]Left it's seeds while I was sleeping [00:21.56]And the vision that was planted in my brain [00:28.35]Still remains [00:31.56]Within the sound of silence [00:37.34]In restless dreams I walked alone [00:42.20]Narrow streets of cobblestone [00:46.70]'Neath the halo of a street lamp [00:51.23]I turned my collar to the cold and damp [00:55.95]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light [01:02.77]That split the night [01:06.30]And touched the sound of silence [01:11.96]And in the naked light I saw [01:16.33]Ten thousand people maybe more [01:21.04]People talking without speaking [01:25.54]People hearing without listening [01:29.93]People writing songs that voices never share [01:37.94]No one dared [01:41.18]Disturb the sound of silence [01:47.01]Fools said I you do not know [01:51.39]Silence like a cancer grows [01:55.73]Hear my words that I might teach you [02:00.17]Take my arms that I might reach you [02:04.64]But my words like silent raindrops fell [02:14.19]And echoed in the wells of silence [02:21.54]And the people bowed and prayed [02:25.80]To the neon God they made [02:30.27]And the sign flashed out it's warning [02:34.70]In the words that it was forming [02:38.94]And the sign said the words of the prophets [02:42.40]Are written on the subway walls [02:46.80]And tenement halls [02:49.77]And whispered in the sounds of silence