The sound of silence

                

RE-                                    DO
   Hello darkness, my old friend
                                            RE-
I've come to talk with you again
                                   SIb     FA
Because a vision softly creeping
                                    SIb        FA
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
              SIb                                             FA
And the vision that was planted in my brain
DO/MI     RE-
Still      remains
FA                  DO           RE-
    Within the sound of silence

                                               DO
In restless dreams I walked alone
                                         RE-
Narrow streets of cobblestone
                               SIb        FA
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
                                         SIb           FA
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
                 SIb                                                                FA
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
         DO/MI   RE-
That split the night
FA                             DO          RE-
    And touched the sound of silence

                                        DO
And in the naked light I saw
                                                 RE-
Ten thousand people, maybe more
                                SIb         FA
People talking without speaking
                                SIb         FA
People hearing without listening
                          SIb                                  FA
People writing songs that voices never share
     DO/MI   RE-
No no one dare
FA                   DO           RE-
    Disturb the sound of silence

                                            DO
"Fools" said I, "You do not know
                                   RE-
Silence like a cancer grows
                                      SIb               FA
Hear my words that I might teach you
                                     SIb              FA
Take my arms that I might reach you"
             SIb                                       FA         DO/MI  RE-
But my words like silent raindrops fell
        FA
And echoed
           DO        RE-
in the wells of silence

                                               DO
And the people bowed and prayed
                                     RE-
To the neon god they made
                                          SIb      FA
And the sign flashed out its warning
                                   SIb     FA
In the words that it was forming

                                       SIb
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
                                             FA
Are written on the subway walls
        DO/MI      RE-
And tenement halls
        FA                         DO           RE-
And whispered in the sounds of silence"