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


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


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


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


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