Am G Am
Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again
C F C F C
Because a vision softly creeping, left it's seeds while I was
sleeping
F C Am
And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains
C G Am
Within the Sound of Silence
G Am
In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone
C F C F C
'Neath the halo of a streetlamp, I turned my collar to the cold
and damp
F C
When my eyes where stabbed by the flash of a neon light
Am C G Am
That split the night, and touched the sound of silence
G Am
And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more
C F C F C
People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening
F C Am
People writing songs that voices never shared, and no one dared
G Am
Disturb the sound of silence
G Am
"Fools" said I, "You do not know. Silence like a cancer grows.
C F C F C
Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might
reach you."
F C Am
But my words like silent raindrops fell
C G Am
And echoed in the wells of silence.
G Am
And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made
C F C
And the sign flashed out it's warning in the words
F C
that it was forming
F C
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written
on the subway walls
Am C G Am
And tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence."