Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

[verse 1]
Ebm                        Db
   Hello darkness, my old friend,
                           Ebm
I've come to talk with you again,
                     B       Gb
Because a vision softly creeping,
                       B       Gb
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
        B                             Gb
Fnd the vision that was planted in my brain
            Gb  Ebm
Still remains
Gb           Db        Ebm
Within the sound of silence.

[verse 2]
                             Db
In restless dreams I walked alone
                        Ebm
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
                   B        Gb
'neath the halo of a street lamp,
                          B        Gb
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
        B
When my eyes were stabbed by the
                Gb
flash of a neon light
                    Gb  Ebm
That split the night
 Gb              Db        Ebm
And touched the sound of silence.

[verse 3]
                         Db
And in the naked light I saw
                           Ebm
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
                   B       Gb
People talking without speaking,
                   B        Gb
People hearing without listening,
               B                       Gb
People writing songs that voices never share
              Gb  Ebm
and no one dare
Gb           Db        Ebm
Disturb the sound of silence.

[verse 4]
                         Db
Fools said I, you do not know
                      Ebm
Silence like a cancer grows.
                     B           Gb
Hear my words that I might teach you,
                    B           Gb
Take my arms that I might reach you.
       B                           Gb Ebm
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
   Gb
And echoed
       Db        Ebm
In the wells of silence

[verse 5]
                         Db
And the people bowed and prayed
                     Ebm
To the neon God they made.
                         B      Gb
and the sign flashed out its warning,
                      B     Gb
In the words that it was forming.
                       B
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
                           Gb
are written on the subway walls
                  Gb Ebm
And tenement halls.
         Gb           Db         Ebm
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.
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