The Sounds of Silence

            [Verse 1]
            Am                        G
            Hello darkness, my old friend,
                                    Am
            I've come to talk with you again,
                                F       C
            Because a vision softly creeping,
                                F       C
            Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
                    F                             C
            And the vision that was planted in my brain
                        C/B  Am
            Still remains
            C           G        Am
            Within the sound of silence.
            
            [Verse 2]
                                        G
            In restless dreams I walked alone
                                    Am
            Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                            F        C
            'neath the halo of a street lamp,
                                    F        C
            I turned my collar to the cold and damp
                    F                                        C
            When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
                                C/B  Am
            That split the night
            C              G        Am
            And touched the sound of silence.
            
            [Verse 3]
                                    G
            And in the naked light I saw
                                    Am
            Ten thousand people, maybe more.
                            F       C
            People talking without speaking,
                            F        C
            People hearing without listening,
                        F                       C
            People writing songs that voices never share
                        C/B  Am
            And no one dare
            C           G        Am
            Disturb the sound of silence.
            
            [Verse 4]
                                    G
            Fools said I, you do not know
                                Am
            Silence like a cancer grows.
                                F           C
            Hear my words that I might teach you,
                                F           C
            Take my arms that I might reach you.
                F                           C   C/B Am
            But my words like silent raindrops fell,
            C
            And echoed
                G        Am
            In the wells of silence
            
            [Verse 5]
                                    G
            And the people bowed and prayed
                                Am
            To the neon God they made.
                                    F      C
            And the sign flashed out its warning,
                                F     C
            In the words that it was forming.
                                F
            And the sign said, the words of the prophets
                                    C
            Are written on the subway walls
                        C     C/B Am
            And tenement halls.
                    C           G         Am
            And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.