THE SOUND OF SILENCE  (Simon and Garfunkel)
 
 
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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 lift 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 cobble stone
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'neath 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 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 share and no one dare
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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
                          F   Bb  F                         Bb      F 
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
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And tenement halls"
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And whisper'd in the sounds of silence