Sound Of Silence

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  Hello, darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again
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Because a vision softly creeping, left it's seeds while I was sleeping
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And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains within the sound of silence

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In restless dream I walked alone, the narrow street of cobble stone
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Beneath the halo of a street lamp, 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 ten thousand people may be more
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People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening
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People writing songs that voices never share
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And no one dare disturb the sound of silence

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

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