Bm A Hello darkness, my old friend,

BmI've come to talk with you again,

G DBecause a vision softly creeping,

G DLeft its seeds while I was sleeping,

G DAnd the vision that was planted in my brain

D/C# BmStill remains

D A BmWithin the sound of silence.

AIn restless dreams I walked alone

BmNarrow streets of cobblestone,

G D'neath the halo of a street lamp,

G DI turned my collar to the cold and damp

G DWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

D/C# BmThat split the night

D A BmAnd touched the sound of silence.

AAnd in the naked light I saw

BmTen thousand people, maybe more.

G DPeople talking without speaking,

G DPeople hearing without listening,

G DPeople writing songs that voices never share

D/C# BmAnd no one dare

D A BmDisturb the sound of silence.

AFools said I, you do not know

BmSilence like a cancer grows.

G DHear my words that I might teach you,

G DTake my arms that I might reach you.

G D D/C# BmBut my words like silent raindrops fell,

DAnd echoed

A BmIn the wells of silence

AAnd the people bowed and prayed

BmTo the neon God they made.

G DAnd the sign flashed out its warning,

G DIn the words that it was forming.

GAnd the sign said, the words of the prophets

DAre written on the subway walls

D D/C# BmAnd tenement halls.

D A BmAnd whisper'd in the sounds of silence.