The Sound Of Silence

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D#m                    C# 
Hello darkness, my old friend,
                         D#m
I`ve come to talk to you again,
                        B          F#
because a vision softly is creeping,
         D#m            B          F#
left its seeds while I was sleeping,
        B                             F#           D#m
and the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains,
           C#       D#m
within the sound of silence. 

D#m                         C# 
In restless dreams I walked alone,
                         D#m
narrow streets of cobble-stone
                  B        F#
Neath the halo of a street lamp,
            D#m           B        F#
I turned my collar to the cold and damp,
         B                                        F#
when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, 
               D#m                    C#       D#m
that split the night and touched the sound of silence. 

D#m                       C# 
And in the naked light I saw,
                         D#m
ten thousand people, maybe more,
                    B        F#
people talking without speaking,
         D#m        B        F#
people hearing without listening,
                 B                      F#
people writing songs that voices never share,
            D#m              C#       D#m
and no-one dare disturb the sound of silence.

D#m                       C# 
Fools, said I, you do not know,
                       D#m
silence like a cancer grows,
                       B        F#
hear my words, that I might teach you,
        D#m          B        F#
take my arms that I might reach you, 
         B                          F#   D#m 
But my words like silent raindrops fell
                   C#       D#m
and echoed in the wells of silence. 

D#m                       C# 
And the people bowed and prayed
                       D#m
to the neon god they`d made. 
                           B      F#
And the sign flashed out its warning,
        D#m           B        F#
in the words that it was forming.
                         B           
And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written 
               F#                 D#m 
in the subway walls, and tenement halls,
                       C#        D#m
and whispered in the sound - of silence.