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SIMON AND GARFUNKEL


The sound of silence

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Hello darkness my old friend I’ve cone to talk with you again

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because a vision softly_ creeping left its seeds with I wa_s sleeping

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and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains    within the sound of silence

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In restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobble stone

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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 the 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 may be 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  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 mi_ght teach you take my arms that I mi_ght reach you

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but my words like silence raindrop fell  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 in the words that it was forming

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and the signs said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

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and tenement halls and wispered in the sounds of silence