The Sound Of Silence

Capo: 6


[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]    [C]
Still remains
           [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]    [C]
That split the night
                [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]    [C]
And no one dare
            [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]        [C/B] [Am]
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
    [C]             [G]        [Am]
And echoed 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.