Sounds Of Silence-The Les Humphries Singers

[ti:Sounds Of Silence] [ar:The Les Humphries Singers] [al:Rock My Soul (I Believe)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.53]Sounds Of Silence - The Les Humphries Singers [00:01.76]Written by：Paul Simon/MGH Jack Martin/Günter Gayer/Les Humphries [00:03.13]Hello darkness my old friend [00:05.81] [00:07.22]I've come to talk with you again [00:09.85] [00:11.64]Because a vision softly creeping [00:15.10] [00:16.18]Left it's seeds while I was sleeping [00:19.03] [00:20.38]And the vision [00:21.87] [00:22.43]That was planted in my brain [00:25.58] [00:26.53]Still remains [00:28.09] [00:29.74]Within the sound [00:31.54] [00:32.24]Of silence [00:33.79] [00:35.05]In restless dreams I walked alone [00:38.07] [00:39.49]Narrow streets of cobblestone [00:42.17] [00:43.64]'Neath the halo of a street lamp [00:46.18] [00:47.72]I turned my collar to the cold and damp [00:50.46] [00:52.06]When my eyes were stabbed [00:54.29]By the flash of a neon light [00:57.21] [00:58.45]Split the night [00:59.50] [01:01.53]And touched the sound [01:03.20] [01:03.97]Of silence [01:05.38] [01:06.72]And in the naked light I saw [01:09.36] [01:10.85]Ten thousand people maybe more [01:13.66] [01:15.41]People talking without speaking [01:18.43] [01:19.70]People hearing without listening [01:22.58] [01:23.91]People writing songs [01:27.02]That voices never share [01:30.26] [01:31.20]No one dared [01:32.69] [01:34.31]To speak the sound [01:36.87]Of silence [01:38.20] [01:39.77]Fools said I do not know [01:42.22] [01:43.84]Silence like a cancer grows [01:46.43] [01:48.04]Hear my words that I might teach you [01:51.56] [01:52.26]Take my arms that I might reach you [01:55.66] [01:56.56]But my words [01:58.54]Like silent raindrops fell [02:01.72] [02:02.81]In the well [02:04.02] [02:05.20]And echoed the sound [02:07.70] [02:08.42]Of silence [02:09.92] [02:11.51]And the people bowed and prayed [02:15.55]To the neon God they made [02:19.01] [02:19.76]And the sign flashed out it's warning [02:23.31] [02:24.01]In the words that it was forming [02:28.33]And the sign said [02:29.61]The words of the prophets are [02:31.88]Written on the subway walls [02:34.73] [02:35.49]And tenement halls [02:37.16] [02:38.12]And whispered [02:39.36] [02:39.98]In the sound [02:42.25] [02:45.41]Of silence