The Sound Of Silence

[Intro]
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Hello darkness, my old friend

[Verse 1]
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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 within the sound of silence
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In restless dreams I walked alone

[Verse 2]
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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 and touched the sound of silence
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And in the naked light I saw

[Verse 3]
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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

[Verse 4]
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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

[Verse 5]
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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 are written on
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the subway walls
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And tenement   halls" and whispered in the sound of silence

[Outro]
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