The Sound of Silence

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