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The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to (1)________ with 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 (4)______________ of cobblestone
Beneath the halo of a (5)____________ lamp
I (6)____________ my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes (7)________ stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That (8)__________ the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked (9)__________ I saw
Ten (10)________________ people, maybe more
People (11)______________ (12)______________ speaking
People (13)______________ (14)______________ listening
People writing songs that voices never share...
And no one dare
Disturb the (15)__________ of silence.

Fools, (16)________ I, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I (17)__________ teach you,
Take my (18)________ that I might (19)__________ you.
But my words like silent (20)__________________ fell,
And (21)____________ in the wells of silence.

And the (22)____________ (23)__________ and prayed
To the (24)________ god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming.
And the (25)__________ said: The words of the prophets
Are (26)______________ on the (27)____________ walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.
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