Tom: C5 C5 Hello darkness my old friend, F5 I've come to talk with you again Bb5 C5 Because a vision softly creeping Bb5 C5 Left it's seeds while I was sleeping Bb5 C5 And the vision that was planted in my brain F5 C5 F5 Still remains----- within the sounds of silence C5 In restless dreams I walked alone, F5 Narrow streets of cobblestone Bb5 C5 'neath the halo of a streetlamp Bb5 C5 I turned my collar to the cold and damp Bb5 C5 When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light F5 C5 F5 Split the night... and touched the sound of silence C5 And in the naked light I saw F5 Ten thousand people maybe more Bb5 C5 People talking without speaking Bb5 C5 People hearing without listening Bb5 C5 Peoplewriting songs that voices never share F5 C5 F5 Noone dare, disturb the sound of silence C5 Fools said I you do not know, F5 Silence like a cancer grows, Bb5 C5 Hear my words that I might teach you Bb5 C5 Take my arms that I might reach you Bb5 C5 But my words, like silent raindrops fell... F5 C5 F5 And echoed the will of silence C5 And the people bowed and prayed, F5 To the neon god they made Bb5 C5 And the sign flashed out its warning Bb5 C5 In the words that it was forming Bb5 And the sign said, "The words of the prophet C5 Are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls F5 C5 F5 And whisper the sounds of silence." **The end of the song contains the same solo as the end of the first verse.
