Sound of Silence

****** Capo 6th fret ********

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Hello Darkness my old

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friend,                      I've come to talk with you a-

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gain,                          Because a vision soft-

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ly     creeping                 left its seeds while I

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was     sleeping                and the vision

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that was planted        in  my      brain,

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still remains                       within the

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Sounds               of    Silence



Rest of it strummed :

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In restless dreams I walked alone
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Narrow streets of cobblestone,
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'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
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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
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And touched the sound of silence.


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 dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

"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

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 signs said, The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence


Outro :
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