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 Dm (you know the riff)

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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 it's 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 streetlamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp
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When my eyes where 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 shared, and no one dared
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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
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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."
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