Em                     D
Hello darkness, my old friend,
                            Em
I've come to talk with you again,
                     C     G
Because a visions softly creeping,
                       C    G
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
             C
And the vision that was planted
               G              Em
 in to my brain, still remains
G              D             Em
Within the sound of silence

                               D
In restless dreams I walked alone
                       Em
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                      C      G
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
                           C        G
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
         C                                       G
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash by a neon light
                    Em
That split the night
G               D        Em
And touched the sound of silence

                          D
And in the naked light I saw
                            Em
Ten thousand people, maybe more
                  C        G
People talking without speaking,
                  C        G
People hearing without listening,
                C                       G
People writing songs that voices never share
             Em
And no one dare
G            D         Em
Disturb the sound of silence

                           D
Fools said I, "You do not know"
                       Em
Silence like a cancer grows
                      C          G
Hear my words that I might teach you,
                      C         G
Take my arms that I might reach you
       C                        G    Em
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
      G
And echoed
        D        Em
In the walls of silence

                          D
And the people bowed and prayed
                       Em
To the neon god they'd made
                     C         G
And the sign flashed out is warning,
                     C      G
In the words that is was forming
                       C
And the sign said the words of the prophets
                          G
Are written on the subway walls
              Em
And tenement halls
        G             D        Em
And whisper'd in the sound of silence.