The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk (1)________ you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its (2)__________ (3)__________ 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
Beneath the halo of a (4)____________ lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a (5)________ light
That split the night
And (6)______________ the sound of silence

And in the (7)__________ light I saw
Ten thousand people, (8)__________ more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share...
And 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 (9)__________ that it was forming.
And the signs said: The words of the prophets
Are (10)______________ on the subway walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.

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