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Verse 1
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.
Verse 2
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.
Verse 3
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.
Verse 4
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
Verse 5
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 sign 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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