The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to (1)________ (2)________ you again
Because a vision (3)____________ creeping
Left its (4)__________ while I was sleeping
And the vision
That was (5)______________ in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In (6)________________ dreams I (7)____________ alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Beneath the halo 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 (8)______________ the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten (9)________________ people, maybe more
People (10)______________ without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing (11)__________ (12)________ voices (13)__________ share...
And no one dare
Disturb the (14)__________ of silence.

Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence like a (15)____________ grows.
Hear my words that I might (16)__________ you,
Take my (17)________ that I might (18)__________ you.
But my words like (19)____________ raindrops fell,
And echoed in the (20)__________ of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the (21)________ (22)______________ 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 (23)________________ halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.

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