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hello darkness my old friend |
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love 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 |
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that was planted in my brain |
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still remains |
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within the sound of silence |
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in restless dreams i walked alone |
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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 |
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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 |
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ten thousand people maybe more |
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people talking without speaking |
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people hearing without listening |
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people writing songs |
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that voices never share |
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no one dare 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 |
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take my arms that i might reach you |
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but my words like silence 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 its warning |
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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 |