The Sound of Silence

[Verse 1]
  Em                        D
     Hello darkness, my old friend,
                             Em
  I've come to talk with you again,
                       C       G
  Because a vision softly creeping,
                         C       G
  Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
          C                             G
  And the vision that was planted in my brain
              G/F#  Em
  Still remains
  G           D        Em
  Within the sound of silence.
  [Verse 2]
                          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 of a neon light
                      G/F#  Em
  That split the night
   G              D        Em
  And touched the sound of silence.
  [Verse 3]
                           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
                G/F#  Em
  And no one dare
  G           D        Em
  Disturb the sound of silence.
  [Verse 4]
                           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   G/F# Em 
  But my words like silent raindrops fell,
     G
  And echoed
         D        Em
  In the wells of silence
  [Verse 5]
                           D
  And the people bowed and prayed
                       Em
  To the neon God they made.
                           C      G
  And the sign flashed out its warning,
                        C     G
  In the words that it was forming.
                         C
  And the sign said, the words of the prophets
                             G
  Are written on the subway walls
               G     G/F# Em
  And tenement halls.
           G           D         Em
  And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.