simon & garfunkel: old friends, disc 1

1. Bleecker Street
2. The Sound Of Silence
3. The Sun Is Burning
4. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
5. He Was My Brother
6. Sparrow
7. Peggy-O
8. Benedictus
9. Somewhere They Can't Find Me
10. We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin'
11. Leaves That Are Green
12. Richard Cory
13. I Am A Rock
14. The Sound Of Silence [Single version]
15. Homeward Bound
16. Blues Run The Game
17. Kathy's Song
18. April Come She Will
19. Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall


Simon & Garfunkel: Old Friends, Disc 1


The Sound Of Silence
By Paul Simon

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

Fools, said I
You do not know, silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd the sounds of silence