[Verse 1] <b class="chord">Am</b> <b class="chord">G</b> Hello darkness, my old friend, <b class="chord">Am</b> I've come to talk with you again, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> Because a vision softly creeping, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> Left its seeds while I was sleeping, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> And the vision that was planted in my brain <b class="chord">C/B</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> Still remains <b class="chord">C</b> <b class="chord">G</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> Within the sound of silence. [Verse 2] <b class="chord">G</b> In restless dreams I walked alone <b class="chord">Am</b> Narrow streets of cobblestone, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> 'neath the halo of a street lamp, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> I turned my collar to the cold and damp <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light <b class="chord">C/B</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> That split the night <b class="chord">C</b> <b class="chord">G</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> And touched the sound of silence. [Verse 3] <b class="chord">G</b> And in the naked light I saw <b class="chord">Am</b> Ten thousand people, maybe more. <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> People talking without speaking, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> People hearing without listening, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> People writing songs that voices never share <b class="chord">C/B</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> And no one dare <b class="chord">C</b> <b class="chord">G</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> Disturb the sound of silence. [Verse 4] <b class="chord">G</b> Fools said I, you do not know <b class="chord">Am</b> Silence like a cancer grows. <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> Hear my words that I might teach you, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> Take my arms that I might reach you. <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> <b class="chord">C/B</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> But my words like silent raindrops fell, <b class="chord">C</b> And echoed <b class="chord">G</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> In the wells of silence [Verse 5] <b class="chord">G</b> And the people bowed and prayed <b class="chord">Am</b> To the neon God they made. <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> And the sign flashed out its warning, <b class="chord">F</b> <b class="chord">C</b> In the words that it was forming. <b class="chord">F</b> And the sign said, the words of the prophets <b class="chord">C</b> Are written on the subway walls <b class="chord">C</b> <b class="chord">C/B</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> And tenement halls. <b class="chord">C</b> <b class="chord">G</b> <b class="chord">Am</b> And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.