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


[Verse 2]
                             G#
In restless dreams I walked alone
                        A#m
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                   F#        C#
'neath the halo of a street lamp,
                          F#        C#
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
        F#                                        C#
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
                    C#/C A#m
That split the night
 C#             G#       A#m
And touched the sound of silence.


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


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


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