(capo 7? casa)

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

Am                           G
In restless dreams I walked alone
                        Am
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                C    F      C
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
                          F        C
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
        F                                        C
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
                   Am
That split the night
C               G        Am
And touched the sound of silence.
Am                       G
And in the naked light I saw
                           Am
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
               C       F    C
People talking without speaking,
                       F     C
People hearing without listening,
       F                               C
People writing songs that voices never share
               Am
And no one dared
C           G        Am
Disturb the sound of silence.
Am                          G
"Fools" said I, "You do not know
                      Am
Silence like a cancer grows.
                   C       F     C
Hear my words that I might teach you,
                          G     C
Take my arms that I might reach you."
       F                           C
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
Am  C
And echoed
       G        Am
In the wells of silence

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