Title: The Sounds Of Silence
Artist: Paul Simon
Genre: Folk
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T:The Sounds Of Silence
T:Sounds of Silence
T:Paul Simon
C:Paul Simon
Z:All Rights Reserved
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V:1 treble nm="Electric Piano"
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w: Hel- lo dark- ness my old|friend|I've come to talk with you a-|gain|Be- cause a vi- sion soft- ly|creep- ing|left its seeds while I was|
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w: sleep- ing|and the vi- sion|_ that was plant- ed|in my brain|* still re- mains|* with- in the|
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w: sound of|si- lence _|In rest- less dreams I walk a|lone|through nar- row streets of cob- ble-|stone|be- neath the ha- lo of a|
w: ||and in the na- ked light I|saw|ten thou- sand peo- ple may- be|more|* peo- ple talk- ing with- out|
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w: street lamp *|I turned my col- lar to the|cold and damp *|when my eyes were stabbed|_ by the flash on a|ne- on light|
w: speak- ing *|* peo- ple hear- ing with- out|lis- ten- ing *|peo- ple writ- ing songs|* * that voi- ces *|nev- er shared|
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w: * split the night|_ and touched the|sound of|sil- ence _|Fools said I you do not|know|si- lence like a can- cer-|
w: * no- one dared|_ dis turb the|sound of|sil- ence _||||
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w: grows|hear my words that I might|teach you _|take my arms that I might|reach you *|but my words|
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w: * like sil- ent|rain- drops fell|and|ech- oed * in the|wells of|si- lence *|
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w: and the peo- ple bowed and|prayed|to the ne- on god they|made,|the sign flashed out its|warn- ing|in the words that it was|
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w: form- ing _|and the signs said the|words of the proph- ets are|writ- ten on the sub- way|walls _ and ten- e- ment|halls and|
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w: whis- per _ in the|sounds of|si- lence. *|
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