🎶 The Sound Of Silence

[D#]Hello darkness my old [Cb]friend
I've come to talk with you [D#]again
Because a vision soft [A#]ly [Db]creeping
Left his seeds while I [A#]was [Db]sleeping
And the [A#]vision that was planted in my [Db]brain
Still re [D#]main [Db]within the [Cb]sound of [D#]silence.

Verse 1:
In restless dreams I walked [Cb]alone
Narrow streets of cobbled [D#]stone
'Neath the halo of a [A#]street [Db]lamp
I turned my collar to the [A#]cold and [Db]damp
When my [A#]eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon [Db]light
That split the [D#]night [Db]and touched the [Cb]sound of [D#]silence.

Verse 2:
And in the naked light I [Cb]saw
Ten thousand people maybe [D#]more
People talking with [A#]out [Db]speaking
People hearing with [A#]out [Db]listening
People writing [A#]songs that voices never [Db]share
And no one [D#]dare [Db]disturb the [Cb]sound of [D#]silence

Verse 3:
Fools said I you do not [Cb]know
Silence like a cancer [D#]grow
Hear my words that I [A#]might [Db]teach you
Take my arm that I [A#]might [Db]reach you
But my [A#]words like silent raindrops [Db]fell
And [D#]echoed in the [Cb]well of [D#]silence

Verse 4:
And the people bowed and [Cb]prayed
To the neon god they [D#]made
And the sign flashed [A#]out its [Db]warning
In the words that it [A#]was [Db]forming
And the sign said
The [A#]words of the prophets are written on the subway [Db]walls
And tenement [D#]halls [Db]and whispered in the [Cb]sound of [D#]silence ⠀