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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 |
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in my brain still remains |
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within the sound of silence |
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in restless dreams i walked along |
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narrow streets of cobble stone |
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beneath 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 |
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by the flash of a neon light |
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that split the light |
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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 |
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"fool" 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 walls 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 signs 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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whispering in the sounds of silence |