Intro: Dm
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Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again,
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Because a vision softly 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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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 that split the night,
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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,
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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 its warning, in the words that it was forming,
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And the signs said "The words of the prophets are written 
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On the subway walls, and tenement halls"
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And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.