Sound of Silence-Mary Travers

[ti:Sound Of Silence] [ar:The Robinson Singers] [al:A Tribute To Simon And Garfunkel] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sound of Silence - Mary Travers [00:07.50]Hello darkness my old friend [00:09.40] [00:11.74]I've come to talk with you again [00:13.52] [00:16.00]Because a vision softly creeping [00:19.21] [00:20.37]Left its seeds while I was sleeping [00:23.30] [00:24.91]And the vision that was planted [00:29.00]In my brain still remains [00:32.56] [00:34.64]Within the sound of silence [00:38.15] [00:40.28]In restless dreams I walked alone [00:42.01] [00:44.85]Narrow streets of cobblestone [00:47.51] [00:48.91]'Neath the halo of a street lamp [00:51.64] [00:53.10]I turned my collar to the cold and damp [00:55.91] [00:57.75]When my eyes were stabbed by the flash [01:00.97]Of a neon light that split the night [01:04.95] [01:07.35]And touched the sound of silence [01:10.79] [01:13.35]And in the naked light I saw [01:15.20] [01:17.18]Ten thousand people maybe more [01:19.17] [01:21.49]People talking without speaking [01:24.33] [01:26.12]People hearing without listening [01:28.85] [01:30.26]People writing songs that voices [01:35.35]Never shared and no one dared [01:38.89] [01:40.76]Disturb the sound of silence [01:44.63] [01:46.89]"Fools" said I "You do not know [01:48.73] [01:51.05]Silence like a cancer grows [01:53.20] [01:55.37]Hear my words that I might teach you [01:58.05] [01:59.87]Take my arms that I might reach you" [02:02.36] [02:05.54]But my words like silent raindrops fell [02:09.51] [02:12.04]And echoed in the wells of silence [02:18.65] [02:20.79]And the people bowed and prayed [02:22.45] [02:24.99]To the neon god they made [02:26.70] [02:29.22]And the sign flashed out its warning [02:32.06] [02:33.48]In the words that it was forming [02:36.47] [02:38.21]And the sign said The words of the prophets are written [02:42.49]On the subway walls and tenement halls [02:46.48] [02:48.29]And whispered in the sounds of silence"