Simon & Garfunkel

The Sound of Silence

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
C           G        Am
Within the sound of silence.

                              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
C                G        Am
And touched the sound of silence.

                          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
C            G        Am
Disturb the sound of silence.

                           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   
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
C/B    Am
And echoed
C       G        Am
In the wells of silence

                           G
And the people bowed and prayed
                      Am
To the neon God they made.
                         F       C
And the sign flashed out its warning,
                      F      C
In the words that it was forming.
                       F
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
                           C
Are written on the subway walls
     C/B      Am
And tenement halls.
         C            G         Am
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.