The Sound Of Silence

[Intro]
D#m


[Verse]
D#m                     C#
Hello darkness, my old friend,
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I've come to talk with you again
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Because a vision softly creeping,
                
  left it's seeds
         B        F#
while I was sleeping
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  And the vision, that
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was planted in my brain,
        D#m
still remains,
           C#        D#m
within the sound of silence.


[Verse]
D#m                           C#
In restless dreams I walked alone,
                         D#m
narrow streets of cobblestone
                   B        F#
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
                   
  I turned my collar
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to the cold and damp
        B                
  When my eyes were stabbed
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by the flash of a neon light,
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that split the night,
                C#        D#m
and touched the sound of silence.


[Verse]
D#m                       C#
And in the naked light I saw,
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ten thousand people, maybe more.
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People talking without speaking
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People hearing without listening
               B    
  People writing songs
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that voices never share,
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and no one dare,
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disturb the sound of silence.


[Verse]
D#m                      C#
Fools said I you do not know,
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silence like a cancer grows.
                   
  Hear my words that
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I might teach you,
                  
  take my arms that
   B           F#
I might reach you.
       B         
  But my words like
                   F#     D#m
silent raindrops fell,

and echoed
       C#        D#m
in the wells of silence


[Verse]
D#m                       C#
And the people bowed and prayed,
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to the neon God they made.
                     
  And the sign flashed
     B       F#
out it's warning,
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in the words that it was forming.
                       
  And the sign said, the
  B
words of the prophets,
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are written on the subway walls;
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and tenement halls.
                     
  And whispered in the
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sounds of silence.