The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

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

And in the (6)__________ (7)__________ I saw
Ten (8)________________ people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices (9)__________ share...
And no one dare
Disturb the (10)__________ of silence.

Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence like a (11)____________ grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I (12)__________ reach you.
But my words like silent (13)__________________ fell,
And (14)____________ in the (15)__________ of silence.

And the (16)____________ (17)__________ and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign (18)______________ out its warning
In the words (19)________ it was forming.
And the (20)__________ said: The (21)__________ of the prophets
Are (22)______________ on the subway walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the (23)__________ of silence.

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