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


[Verse 2]
                             D#
In restless dreams I walked alone
                        Fm
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 of a neon light
                    G#/G Fm
That split the night
 G#             D#       Fm
And touched the sound of silence.


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


[Verse 4]
                         D#
Fools said I, you do not know
                      Fm
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#  G#/G Fm
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
   G#
And echoed
       D#       Fm
In the wells of silence


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