The Sound of Silence
Paul Simon

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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 its seeds while I was sleeping
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And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains
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 Within the sound of silence

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  In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone
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'Neath the halo of a streetlamp, 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 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 ten thousand people, maybe more
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People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening
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People writing songs that voices never shared, no one dared
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  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...
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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 its warning, in the words that it was forming
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And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway
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walls and tenement halls
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And whispered in the sounds of silenceÓ