Simon And Garfunkel - The 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 
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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 where 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, 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, and 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 it's warning in the words 
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that it was forming 
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And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written 
on the subway walls 
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And tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence."