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- Simon and Garfunkel: The Sound Of Silence
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- Hello darkness, my old friend,
- I've come to talk with you again,
- Because a vision softly creeping,
- Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
- 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 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.
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- 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 deared
- Disturb the sound of silence.
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- "Fools" said I,"You do not know
- Silence 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 the wells of silence
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- And the people bowed and prayed
- To the neon god they made.
- And the sign flashed out its warning,
- In the words that it was forming.
- And the signs said, The words of the prophets
- are written on the subway walls
- And tenement halls.
- And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.
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