E5 D5 Hello darkness, my old friend, E5 I've come to talk with you again, C5 G5 Because a visions softly creeping, C5 G5 Left its seeds while I was sleeping, C5 And the vision that was planted G5 E5 in to my brain, still remains G5 D5 E5 Within the sound of silence D5 In restless dreams I walked alone E5 Narrow streets of cobblestone, C5 G5 'Neath the halo of a street lamp, C5 G5 I turned my collar to the cold and damp C5 G5 When my eyes were stabbed by the flash by a neon light E5 That split the night G5 D5 E5 And touched the sound of silence D5 And in the naked light I saw E5 Ten thousand people, maybe more C5 G5 People talking without speaking, C5 G5 People hearing without listening, C5 G5 People writing songs that voices never share E5 And no one dare G5 D5 E5 Disturb the sound of silence D5 Fools said I, "You do not know" E5 Silence like a cancer grows C5 G5 Hear my words that I might teach you, C5 G5 Take my arms that I might reach you C5 G5 E5 But my words like silent raindrops fell, G5 And echoed D5 E5 In the walls of silence D5 And the people bowed and prayed E5 To the neon god they'd made C5 G5 And the sign flashed out is warning, C5 G5 In the words that is was forming C5 And the sign said the words of the prophets G5 Are written on the subway walls E5 And tenement halls G5 D5 E5 And whisper'd in the sound of silence.
