The Sound of Silence-The Golden Group

[ti:The Sound of Silence] [ar:The Associated Soul Group] [al:Free Ride: 45 Songs for a Summer Festival Road Trip] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sound of Silence - The Golden Group [00:03.42]Hello darkness my old friend [00:06.68] [00:07.56]I've come to talk with you again [00:10.68] [00:12.11]Because a vision softly creeping [00:15.45] [00:16.59]Left its seeds while I was sleeping [00:19.76] [00:21.02]And the vision that was planted in my brain [00:26.74] [00:27.53]Still remains [00:29.49] [00:30.70]Within the sound of silence [00:35.33] [00:36.17]In restless dreams I walked alone [00:39.99] [00:41.02]Narrow streets of cobblestone [00:44.43] [00:45.36]'Neath the halo of a street lamp [00:48.76] [00:49.56]I turned my collar to the cold and damp [00:53.06] [00:54.16]When my eyes were stabbed [00:56.50]By the flash of a neon light [00:59.57] [01:00.52]That split the night [01:01.97] [01:03.86]And touched the sound of silence [01:07.97] [01:09.56]And in the hessy light I saw [01:12.36] [01:13.75]Ten thousand people maybe more [01:17.10] [01:18.40]People talking without speaking [01:21.54] [01:22.78]People hearing without listening [01:25.86] [01:27.21]People writing songs that voices never share [01:33.71] [01:34.85]And no one dared [01:36.20] [01:37.84]Disturb the sound of silence [01:42.17] [01:43.69]Fools said I [01:44.41]That did not know silence like a cancer grows [01:51.48] [01:52.31]Hear my words that I might teach you [01:55.57] [01:56.53]Take my arms that I might reach you [01:59.84] [02:00.93]But my words like silent raindrops fell [02:06.53] [02:10.27]And echoed the sound of silence [02:16.26] [02:17.33]And the people kneeled and prayed [02:21.08] [02:21.70]To the neon god they made [02:25.26] [02:25.99]And the sign sound out warning [02:29.33] [02:30.30]In the words that it was forming [02:33.86] [02:34.76]And the sign said [02:36.01]The words of the prophets [02:37.93]Are written on the subway walls [02:40.99] [02:42.20]And tenement halls [02:43.38] [02:44.99]And whispered in the sounds of silence