Sound Of Silence

    Dmi                    C 
1. Hello darkness my old friend 
                                Dmi 
   I've come to talk with you again 
              F              Bb F 
   because a vision softly creeping 
                               Bb F 
   left it seeds while I was sleeping 
            Bb                             F 
   and the vision that was planted in my brain 
                Dmi F          C        Dmi 
   still remains   within the sound of silence. 
2. In restless dreams I walked alone 
   narrow streets of cobble-stone 
   neath the halo of a street lamp 
   I turned my collar to the cold and damp 
   when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light 
   that spilt the night and touched the sound of silence. 
3. And in the naked light I saw 
   ten thousand people maybe more 
   people talking without speaking 
   people hearing without listening 
   people writing songs that voices never share 
   and no one dare disturb the sound of silence. 
4. "Fools!" said I "you do not know 
   silence like a cancer grows 
   hear my words that I might teach you 
   take my arms that I might reach you." 
   But my words like silent raindrops fell 
   and echoed in the wells of silence. 
5. And the people bowed and prayed 
   to the neon god they made 
   and the sign flashed out its warning 
   in the words that it was forming and the sign said: 
   "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls 
   and tenament halls" and whisper'd in the sound of silence.