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[Verse 1]
            
    Hello dark

              
ness, my old f

            
riend
             
    I've come 

              
to talk with y

     
ou again
              
Because a visi

             
on softly cree

 
ping
              
Left its seeds

             
 while I was s

    
leeping
             
And the vision

              
 that was plan

            
ted in my brai

n
              
Still remains

   
             
Within the sou

       
nd of silence

[Verse 2]
            
     In restle

              
ss dreams I wa

         
lked alone
             
     Narrow st

              
reets of cobbl

  
estone
              
'Neath the hal

             
o of a street 

 
lamp
              
I turned my co

             
llar to the co

        
ld and damp
             
When my eyes w

              
ere stabbed by

              
 the flash of 

        
a neon light
              
That split the

          
 night
             
And touched th

           
e sound of sil

ence

[Verse 3]
            
      And in t

              
he naked light

        
 I saw
             
      Ten thou

              
sand people, m

      
aybe more
              
People talking

             
 without speak


ing
              
People hearing

             
 without liste

 
ning
              
People writing

             
 songs that vo

             
ices never sha

re
              
And no one dar

      
ed
            
Disturb the so

        
und of silence

[Verse 4]
            
     "Fools", 

              
said I, "You d

          
o not know
             
      Silence 

              
like a cancer 

 
grows
              
Hear my words 

             
that I might t

      
each you
              
Take my arms t

             
hat I might re

      
ach you"
             
But my words, 

              
like silent ra

                      
indrops fell
             
And echoed

    
             
In the wells o

   
f silence

[Verse 5]
            
      And the 

              
people bowed a

       
nd prayed
             
      To the n

              
eon god they m


ade
              
And the sign f

             
lashed out its

     
 warning
              
In the words t

             
hat it was for

 
ming
              
And the sign s

             
aid, "The word

              
s of the proph

              
ets are writte

              
n on the subwa

  
y walls
              
And tenement h

             
alls"
             
And whispered 

             
in the sounds 

    
of silence

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