The Sound of Silence

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