PAUL SIMON - The Sound Of Silence lyrics

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Hello darkness, my old friend,<br>I've come to talk with you again,<br>Because a vision softly creeping,<br>Left it's seeds while I was sleeping,<br>And the vision that was planted in my brain<br>Still remains<br>Within the sound of silence.<br>In restless dreams I walked alone<br>Narrow streets of cobblestone,<br>'neath the halo of a street lamp,<br>I turned my collar to the cold and damp<br>When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light<br>That split the night<br>And touched the sound of silence.<br><br>And in the naked light I saw<br>Ten thousand people, maybe more.<br>People talking without speaking,<br>People hearing without listening,<br>People writing songs that voices never share<br>And no one dare<br>Disturb the sound of silence.<br><br>Fools said i, you do not know<br>Silence like a cancer grows.<br>Hear my words that I might teach you,<br>Take my arms that I might reach you.<br>But my words like silent raindrops fell,<br>And echoed<br>In the wells of silence<br><br>And the people bowed and prayed<br>To the neon God they made.<br>And the sign flashed out it's warning,<br>In the words that it was forming.<br>And the sign said, the words of the prophets<br><br>Are written on the subway walls<br>And tenement halls.<br>And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.