21.The Sound Of Silence
Lyrics：Paul Simon
Music：Paul Simon
Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come with 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, 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 shared, and no one dared
To stir the sound of silence
Fool, said I, you do not know, silence, like a cancer, grows
Hear my words and I might teach you, take my arms then 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'd made
And the sign flashed 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 sounds of silence
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