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 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 rain-drops 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 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
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And whispered - in the sounds of silence