The Sound Of Silence

[Intro]
G#m


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


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


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


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

and echoed
       F#        G#m
in the wells of silence


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