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The Sound Of Silence by Disturbed

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly 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 streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the (1)________ and damp
When my eyes were (2)______________ by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs (3)________ voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence like a (4)____________ grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms (5)________ I (6)__________ reach you
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people (7)__________ and prayed
To the neon god (8)________ made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, the words of the (9)________________ are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence
Answers:
(1) cold(2) stabbed(3) that(4) cancer(5) that(6) might(7) bowed(8) they(9) prophets