The Sound Of Silence

[Verse 1]
Asus2                       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 C
Still remains
           G        Am
Within the sound of silence
                             G
In restless dreams I walked alone

[Verse 2]
                        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
When my eyes were stabbed
                            C
By the flash of a neon light
                    C/B Am C
That split the night
                G        Am
And touched the sound of silence
                         G
And in the naked light I saw

[Verse 3]
                           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 C
No one dared
            G        Am
Disturb the sound of silence
                            G
"Fools" said I, "You do not know

[Verse 4]
                      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
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
C/B Am    C
      And echoed
       G        Am
In the wells of silence
                         G
And the people bowed and prayed

[Verse 5]
                     Am
To the neon god they made
                            F        C
And the sign flashed out its warning,
C                        F       C
 In the words that it was forming
And the sign said
     F
"The words of the prophets
                               C
Are written on the subway walls
                  C/B Am C
And tenement halls
                     G         Am
And whispered in the sounds of silence"