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Hello darkness, my old friend,
Am
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
Am
Still remains
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Within the sound of silence.
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In restless dreams I walked alone
Am
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
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'Neath 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
Am
That split the night
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And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.
"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.
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The light shine down the valley, The wind blows up the alley
C G C
oh how I wish I was Lyin in the arms of Mary
C G C F
She took the pains of boyhood, and turned them into feelgood
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oh how I wish I was Lyin in the arms of Mary
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Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know
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she put me right on my first mistake
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summer was so good when I learned all she had to show
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she really gave all a boy could take
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so now when I get lonely, still looking for the one and only
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thats when I wish I was lyin' in the arms of Mary