The Sound 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 sound of silence

In restless dreams I (1)____________ alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Beneath the halo of a (2)____________ 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 light I saw
Ten (3)________________ people, maybe more
People (4)______________ without speaking
People hearing (5)______________ listening
People writing songs (6)________ 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 (7)________ made.
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said: The (8)__________ of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.

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