[Start]
[Verse]
F#m F#m E
■ ■ Hello darkness my old friend
F#m
I've come to talk with you again
D A
Because a vision softly creeping
D A
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
D A
And the vision that was planted in my brain
F#m A
Still remains ■
E F#m
Within the sound of silence
E
In restless dreams I walked alone
F#m
Narrow streets of cobblestone
D A
'neath the halo of a street lamp
D A
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
D A
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
Bm7 F#m A
That split the night
E F#m
And touched the sound of silence
[Chorus]
A E
And in the naked light I saw
F#m
Ten thousand people maybe more
D A
People talking without speaking
D A
People hearing without listening
D A
People writing songs that voices never share
[Verse]
F#m
And no one dared
A F#m A E F#m
Disturb ■ the sound of silence
E
Fools said I you do not know
F#m
Silence like a cancer grows
[Chorus]
D A
Hear my words that I might teach you
D A
Take my arms that I might reach you
D A
But my words like silent raindrops fell
F#m A E F#m
■ And echoed in the wells of silence
E F#m E
And the people bowed and prayed
F#m
To the neon god they made
D A
And the sign flashed out its warning
D A
In the words that it was forming
A
And the sign said
D A
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
F#m E A
And tenement halls ■ ■
F#m E B F#m7 F#m
And whispered in the sound of silence ■ ■ ■
[Outro]
[End]
GUITAR
