Sound of silence

SOUND OF SILENCE            

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1. Hallo darkness, my old friend, I`ve come to talk to you again,
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    because a vision softly is 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 sound of silence.
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2.   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 a neon light, 
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      that split the night - and touched the sound of silence.
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3.   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,
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    and no-one dare - disturb the sound so silence.
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4.   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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5.  And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they`d 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
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    in the subway walls, and tenement halls ,
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    and whispered in the sound - of silence.