The Sound Of Silence Akor

 

Hello darkness, my old friend,

 

I've come to talk with you again,

 

Because a vision softly creeping,

 

Left its seeds while I was sleeping,

 

And the vision that was planted in my brain

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Still remains

 

Within the sound of silence.

 

 

In restless dreams I walked alone

 

Narrow streets of cobblestone,

 

'neath the halo of a street lamp,

 

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

 

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.

 

 

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

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And no one dare

 

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 sign said, the words of the prophets

 

Are written on the subway walls

   

And tenement halls.

 

And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.