The Sound of Silence
Recording is in Ebm, guitar capo 6 using Am

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

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

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

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

| [Am] . . . | . . . . | [G] . . . | . . . . | [Am] . . . | 
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon [G]od they made.
| [Am] . . . | [F] . [C] . | . . . . | [F] . [C] . | . . . . |         
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
| [F] . . . | . . . . | [C] . . . | . . [Am] . | [C] . . . | [G] . . . |     
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls. And whispered in the sounds of silence.