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The Paul Simon Songbook • 1965
The Sound of Silence
Paul Simon
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Lyrics of The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon
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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 shared
And no one dared 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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The Paul Simon Songbook
Album • 1965 • 14 tracks
1
I Am a Rock
Paul Simon
2
Leaves That Are Green
Paul Simon
3
A Church Is Burning
Paul Simon
4
April Come She Will
Paul Simon
5
The Sound of Silence
Paul Simon
6
A Most Peculiar Man
Paul Simon
7
He Was My Brother
Paul Simon
8
Kathy's Song
Paul Simon
9
The Side of a Hill
Paul Simon
10
A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
Paul Simon
11
Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
Paul Simon
12
Patterns
Paul Simon
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