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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 cobble stone |
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Bneath 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 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 rain-drops 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 and tenement halls" |
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And whispered in the sounds of silence |
