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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 its 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 sounds of silence.

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In restless dreams I walked alone Through 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

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That split the night And touched the sounds of silence.

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and in the nacked 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 sounds 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 ... 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 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.