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.