Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound Of Silence (Guitar)

Am                        G
   Hello darkness, my old friend,

                            Am
I've come to talk with you again,

                      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

            C/B Am    C
Still remains

           G        Am
Within the sound of silence.

                             G
In restless dreams I walked alone

                        Am
Narrow streets of cobblestone,

                    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

                    C/B Am    C
That split the night

                G        Am
And touched the sound of silence.

                         G
And in the naked light I saw

                           Am
Ten thousand people, maybe more.

                    F       C
People talking without speaking,

                    F       C
People hearing without listening,

               F                         C
People writing songs that voices never share

               C/B Am    C
And no one dare

            G        Am
Disturb the sound of silence.

                         G
Fools said I, you do not know

                      Am
Silence like a cancer grows.

                      F           C
Hear my words that I might teach you,

                     F           C
Take my arms that I might reach you.

       F                           C        C/B Am
But my words like silent raindrops fell,

    C             G        Am
And echoed in the wells of silence

                         G
And the people bowed and prayed

                     Am
To the neon god they made.

                          F      C
And the sign flashed out its warning,

                      F      C
In the words that it was forming.

                       F
And the sign said, the words of the prophets

                           C
Are written on the subway walls

                  C/B Am
And tenement halls

    C                G         Am
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.