B       C#      D#m     F       F#      
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 ||||    OOO|    |||O    ||O|    |O|O   
 ||OO    ||||    ||O|    O|||    ||O|   
 |O||    ||||    OO||    ||||    O|||   
 O|||    |||O    ||||    ||||    ||||   
.||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   .||||   
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[Verse 1]
D#m                       C#
   Hello darkness, my old friend,
                           D#m
I've come to talk with you again,
                     B       F#
Because a vision softly creeping,
                       B       F#
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
        B                             F#
And the vision that was planted in my brain
            F#/F D#m
Still remains
F#          C#       D#m
Within the sound of silence.


[Verse 2]
                             C#
In restless dreams I walked alone
                        D#m
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                   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
                    F#/F D#m
That split the night
 F#             C#       D#m
And touched the sound of silence.


[Verse 3]
                         C#
And in the naked light I saw
                           D#m
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
                   B       F#
People talking without speaking,
                   B        F#
People hearing without listening,
               B                       F#
People writing songs that voices never share
              F#/F D#m
And no one dare
F#          C#       D#m
Disturb the sound of silence.


[Verse 4]
                         C#
Fools said I, you do not know
                      D#m
Silence like a cancer grows.
                     B           F#
Hear my words that I might teach you,
                    B           F#
Take my arms that I might reach you.
       B                           F#  F#/F D#m
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
   F#
And echoed
       C#       D#m
In the wells of silence


[Verse 5]
                         C#
And the people bowed and prayed
                     D#m
To the neon God they made.
                         B      F#
And the sign flashed out its warning,
                      B     F#
In the words that it was forming.
                       B
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
                           F#
Are written on the subway walls
             F#    F#/F D#m
And tenement halls.
         F#          C#        D#m
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.