Intro: Verse  

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Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again  
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Because a vision soft creeping, Left it's seeds while I was sleeping  
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And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence  

Melody  
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In restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone  
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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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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 and no one dare, disturb the sound of silence  
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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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And the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made  
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And the sign flashed out it's warning, in the words that it was forming  
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And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls  
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And tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence