The Sound Of Silence

[Intro]
C#m


[Verse]
C#m                     B
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
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while I was sleeping
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  And the vision, that
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was planted in my brain,
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still remains,
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within the sound of silence.


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


[Verse]
C#m                       B
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
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  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]
C#m                      B
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
   A           E
I might reach you.
       A         
  But my words like
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silent raindrops fell,

and echoed
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in the wells of silence


[Verse]
C#m                       B
And the people bowed and prayed,
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to the neon God they made.
                     
  And the sign flashed
     A       E
out it's warning,
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in the words that it was forming.
                       
  And the sign said, the
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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.