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The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision (1)____________ creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision
That was (2)______________ in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless (3)____________ 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 neon light
That split the night
And (5)______________ the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing (6)______________ listening
People writing (7)__________ that voices never share...
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence like a (8)____________ grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms (9)________ I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed in the wells of silence.

And the (10)____________ bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said: The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.
Answers:
(1) softly(2) planted(3) dreams(4) street(5) touched(6) without(7) songs(8) cancer(9) that(10) people