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
Still remains
Within the Sound of Silence
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In restless dreams … I walked Alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
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
People talking … Without speaking
People hearing … Without listening
People writing songs
That voices never share
No one dare
Disturb the Sound of Silence
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(((((( 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
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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 whispered in the Sound of Silence"
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Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other … not particularly internationally but especially emotionally … so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."
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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
Still remains
Within the Sound of Silence
---------
In restless dreams … I walked Alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
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
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 whispered in the Sound of Silence"
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Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other … not particularly internationally but especially emotionally … so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."
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