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The Sound Of Silence
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Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Beacause a vision softly creeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remaina within the sounnd of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobble stone
'Neath the halo of street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash
Of a neon light that split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people may be more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare distrub the sound of silence
"Fools!" said " you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows"
"Hear my words that I might teach you "
But my words like silent raindrops felt
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
And the signs flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said " The words of prophets
Are written on the sub-way walls and tenement halls "
And whisper'd in the sound of silence
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