The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to (1)________ with you again
Because a (2)____________ (3)____________ 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 walked alone
Narrow (4)______________ of cobblestone
Beneath the halo of a (5)____________ lamp
I (6)____________ my collar to the cold and damp
When my (7)________ (8)________ stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And (9)______________ the (10)__________ of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking (11)______________ speaking
People (12)______________ (13)______________ listening
People (14)______________ songs that (15)____________ (16)__________ share...
And no one dare
Disturb the (17)__________ of silence.
Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence (18)________ a cancer grows.
Hear my words (19)________ I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my (20)__________ (21)________ silent (22)__________________ fell,
And echoed in the wells of silence.
And the people (23)__________ and prayed
To the neon god (24)________ 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 (25)______________ on the subway walls
And (26)________________ halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.
I've come to (1)________ with you again
Because a (2)____________ (3)____________ 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 walked alone
Narrow (4)______________ of cobblestone
Beneath the halo of a (5)____________ lamp
I (6)____________ my collar to the cold and damp
When my (7)________ (8)________ stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And (9)______________ the (10)__________ of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking (11)______________ speaking
People (12)______________ (13)______________ listening
People (14)______________ songs that (15)____________ (16)__________ share...
And no one dare
Disturb the (17)__________ of silence.
Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence (18)________ a cancer grows.
Hear my words (19)________ I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my (20)__________ (21)________ silent (22)__________________ fell,
And echoed in the wells of silence.
And the people (23)__________ and prayed
To the neon god (24)________ 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 (25)______________ on the subway walls
And (26)________________ halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.
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