The Sound of Silence

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