(Paul Simon)

Intr/: Em

Tom: Em

 Em                     D
Hello darkness, my old friend,
                            Em
I've come to talk with you again,
                 C           G
Because a vision softly creeping,
                       C        G
Left its seeds while I was slleeping,
         C                                 G                   Em
And the visions that was planted in to my brain, still remains
G           D        Em
Within the sound of silence
                               D
In restless dreams I walked alone
                       Em
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                      C      G
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
                           C        G
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
         C                                          G
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash by the neon light
                    Em
That slipt the night
G               D        Em
And touched the sound of silence
                          D
And in the naked light I saw
                            Em
Ten thousand people, maybe more
                  C        G
People talking without speaking,
                   C        G
People hearning without listening,
                C                       G
People writing songs that voices never share
             Em
And no one dare
G            D         Em
Disturb the sound of silence
                           D
Folls said I, "You do not know"
                       Em
Silence like a cancer grows
                      C          G
Hear my words that I might teach you,
                      C         G
Take my arms that I might reach you
       C                           G    Em
But my words like silent raidrops fell,
      G
And echoed
        D        Em
In the walls of silence
                          D
And the people bowed and prayed
                     Em
To the neon god they made
                     C         G
And the sing flashed out is warning,
                     C      G
In the words that is was forming
                       C
And the sing said the words of the prophets
                          G
Are written on the subway walls
              Em
And tenement halls
       G             D        Em
And wisper'd in the sound of silence.