Words & music by Paul Simon 1964 Dm7 |C | Hello darkness, my old friend, |Dm | I've come to talk with you again, F6 |Bb F | Because a vision softly creeping, |Bb F | Left its seeds while I was sleeping, |Bb | |F And the vision that was planted in my brain | | Still remains Dm F |C |Dm | Within the sound of silence Dm7 |C | In restless dreams I walked alone |Dm | Narrow streets of cobblestone, F6 |Bb F | 'Neath the halo of a street lamp, |Bb F | I turned my collar to the cold and damp |Bb | |F When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light | | That split the night Dm F |C |Dm | And touched the sound of silence. Dm7 |C | And in the naked light I saw |Dm | Ten thousand people, maybe more F6 |Bb F | People talking without speaking, |B b F | People hearing without listening, |Bb | |F People writing songs that voices never share | | And no one dared Dm F |C |Dm | Disturb the sound of silence Dm7 |C | "Fools" said I, "You do not know |Dm | Silence like a cancer grows F6 |Bb F | Hear my words that I might teach you, |Bb F | Take my arms that I might reach you" |Bb | |F But my words like silent raindrops fell, | | And echoed Dm F |C |Dm | In the wells of silence Dm7 |C | And the people bowed and prayed |Dm | To the neon god they made. F6 |Bb F | And the sign flashed out its warning, |Bb F | In the words that it was forming. |Bb | And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are |F written on the subway walls | | And tenement halls." Dm F |C |Dm | And whisper'd in the Sound of Silence.
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