Simon Paul - 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 its seeds while I was
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sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my
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brain still remains within the Sound Of Silence.

In restless dreams I walkedalone narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the
cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon
light that split the night and touched The Sound Of Silence.

And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people maybe more.
People talking without speaking,  people hearing without
listening People writing songs that voices never
share and no one dare disturb The Sound Of Silence.

"Fools"! said I, "You do not know sgence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you, Take my arms that I might
reach you. But my words like silent raindrops fell,
and echoed in thewells of silence.

And the people bowed and
neon godthey made. And the sign ffashed out its
warning. In the words that it was forming,And the signs said "The
word of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement
halls. And whisper'd in The Sound Of Silence,

