Sound Of Silence Lyrics And

**Chords:**
Am  G  F  C  
Am  G  F  C  

Am               G  
Hello darkness, my old friend,  
F                 C  
I've come to talk with you again.  
Am              G  
Because a vision softly creeping,  
F                 C  
Left its seeds while I was sleeping.  
Am               G  
And the vision that was planted in my brain  
F             C  
Still remains  
Am       G   F   C  
Within the sound of silence.  

Am               G  
In restless dreams I walked alone  
F                C  
Narrow streets of cobblestone.  
Am                  G  
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,  
F                     C  
I turned my collar to the cold and damp.  
Am                  G  
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light  
F             C  
That split the night  
Am       G   F   C  
And touched the sound of silence.  

Am               G  
And in the naked light I saw  
F                 C  
Ten thousand people, maybe more.  
Am                  G  
People talking without speaking,  
F                C  
People hearing without listening.  
Am                G  
People writing songs that voices never share  
F                 C  
And no one dared  
Am       G   F   C  
Disturb the sound of silence.  

Am                   G  
"Fools," said I, "You do not know  
F                   C  
Silence like a cancer grows.  
Am                   G  
Hear my words that I might teach you,  
F                  C  
Take my arms that I might reach you."  
Am                  G  
But my words, like silent raindrops fell,  
F               C  
And echoed in the wells of silence.  

Am                G  
And the people bowed and prayed  
F                   C  
To the neon god they made.  
Am                G  
And the sign flashed out its warning,  
F                  C  
In the words that it was forming.  
Am                G  
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls  
F                C  
And tenement halls  
Am       G   F   C  
And whispered in the sound of silence."