The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk (1)________ you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds (2)__________ I was sleeping
And the vision
That was (3)______________ 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 (4)____________ my collar to the (5)________ and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a (6)________ light
That split the night
And (7)______________ the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People (8)______________ (9)______________ speaking
People (10)______________ (11)______________ listening
People writing songs (12)________ 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 (13)__________ (14)________ silent (15)__________________ fell,
And (16)____________ in the wells of silence.

And the (17)____________ bowed and prayed
To the (18)________ god they made.
And the (19)________ flashed out its warning
In the (20)__________ (21)________ it was forming.
And the signs said: The (22)__________ of the prophets
Are (23)______________ on the (24)____________ walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.

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