The Sound Of Silence

Accordi The Sound Of Silence

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

                             
DO
In restless dreams I walked alone
                        
REm
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                   
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FA
'neath the halo of a street lamp,
                          
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I turned my collar to the cold and damp
        
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FA
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
     
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REm
That split the night
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REm
  And touched the sound of silence

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

                         
DO
Fools said I, you do not know
                      
REm
Silence like a cancer grows
                      
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FA
Hear my words that I might teach you,
                     
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Take my arms that I might reach you
       
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REm 
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
    
FA
And echoed
       
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REm
In the wells of silence

                         
DO
And the people bowed and prayed
                     
REm
To the neon God they made
                         
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FA
And the sign flashed out its warning,
                      
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FA
In the words that it was forming
                       
SIb
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
                          
FA
Are written on the subway walls
    
DO/MI    
REm
And tenement halls
    
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DO        
REm
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence