The sound of silence    Simon and Garfunkel

[Verse 1]

Am                                      G
   Hello darkness, my old friend,
                                           Am
I've come to talk with you again,
                                       F         C
Because a vision softly creeping,
                                            F       C
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
                F                                                    C
And the vision that was planted in my brain
            C/B  Am
Still remains
                       G        Am
Within the sound of silence.
 
[Verse 2]
                                                 G
In restless dreams I walked alone
                                           Am
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                                   F           C
'neath the halo of a street lamp,
                                            F              C
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
                    F                                                                     C
When my eyes were stabbed by_the_flash_of a neon light
                C/B  Am
That split the night
                             G             Am
And touched the sound of silence.
 
[Verse 3]
                                      G
And in the naked light I saw
                                                  Am
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
                                    
                                     F             C
People talking without speaking,
                                        F            C
People hearing without listening,  
                           F                                              C
People writing songs that voices never share
                C/B  Am
And no one dare
                         G        Am
Disturb the sound of silence.
 
[Verse 4]
                                            G
Fools said I, you do not know
                                       Am
Silence like a cancer grows.
                                                 F           C
Hear my words that I might teach you,
                                              F           C
Take my arms that I might reach you.
                 F                                             C   C/B Am
But my words like silent raindrops fell,  …......
                              G             Am
And echoed  In the wells of silence
    
[Verse 5]
                                                   G
And the people bowed and prayed
                                            Am
To the neon God they made.
                                               F      C
And the sign flashed out it is warning,
                                        F       C
In the words that it was forming.
                                           F
And the sign said, the words of the prophets are
                                                 C
written_on the subway walls
             C     C/B Am
And tenement halls.
                                        G         Am
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.