The Sound Of Silence

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