Sounds Of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

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 (1)__________ of silence
In restless (2)____________ I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the (3)________ of a street lamp
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
And in the naked (4)__________ I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
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, (5)________ silent (6)__________________ fell,
And echoed In the wells of silence
And the (7)____________ bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign (8)______________ out its warning
In the (9)__________ that it was forming
And the sign (10)__________ "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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