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 turned 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 share

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And no one dare
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Disturb the sound of silence.
[Verse 4]
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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

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In the wells of silence
[Verse 5]
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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 whisper'd in the sounds of silence.