The Sound of Silence

Accordi The Sound of Silence

FA#m                   
MI
 Hello, darkness, my old friend
                         
FA#m
I've come to talk with you again
                      
RE    
LA
Because a vision softly creeping,
                         
RE    
LA
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
        
RE                              
LA
And the vision that was planted in my brain
    
FA#m
Still remains
           
MI       
FA#m
Within the sound of silence

                             
MI
In restless dreams I walked alone
                       
FA#m
Narrow streets of cobblestone
                   
RE       
LA
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
                          
RE       
LA
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
        
RE
When my eyes were stabbed
       
RE/FA#          
LA
by the flash of a neon light
SIm7       
FA#m       
LA
 That split the night
                
MI       
FA#m
And touched the sound of silence

                        
MI
And in the naked light I saw
                         
FA#m
Ten thousand people, maybe more
                  
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LA
People talking without speaking
                   
RE       
LA
People hearing without listening
               
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LA
People writing songs that voices never share
         
FA#m    
LA  
FA#m
And no one dare
   
LA       
MI       
FA#m
Disturb the sound of silence

                          
MI
"Fools," said I, "You do not know
                     
FA#m
Silence, like a cancer, grows
                        
RE       
LA
Hear my words that I might teach you
                       
RE       
LA
Take my arms that I might reach you,"
      
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LA   
FA#m
But my words like silent raindrops fell
    
LA            
MI       
FA#m
And echoed in the wells of silence

                         
MI
And the people bowed and prayed
                 
FA#m
To the neon god they made
                         
RE     
LA
And the sign flashed out its warning
                       
RE   
LA
In the words that it was forming
           
And the sign said,
     
RE
"The words of the prophets 
                           
LA
are written on the subway walls
           
FA#m    
LA  
And tenement halls
    
FA#m             
MI       
FA#m
And whispered in the sound of silence