The Sound Of Silence

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

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

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

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

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And the people bowed and prayed 
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To the neon god they made 
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And the sign flashed out its warning 
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In the words that it was forming 
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And the sign said "The words of the prophets 
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are written on the subway walls 
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And tenement halls 
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And whispered in the sound of silence