Sounds Of Silence

Tom: C

                          C
Hello darkness my old friend,
                        F
I've come to talk with you again
                   Bb      Csus
Because a vision softly creeping 
                        Bb       Csus
Left it's seeds while I  was sleeping                                  
        Bb                           Csus
And the vision that was planted in my brain
           F                          C         F
Still remains-----  within the sounds of silence
                             C
In restless dreams I walked alone,
                        F
Narrow streets of cobblestone
                   Bb      Csus
'neath the halo of a streetlamp
                          Bb       Csus
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
        Bb                                       Csus
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
           F                          C         F
Split the night...   and touched the sound of silence
                             C
And in the naked light I saw
                        F
Ten thousand people maybe more
                   Bb      Csus
People talking without speaking
                   Bb      Csus
People hearing without listening
        Bb                            Csus
Peoplewriting songs that voices never share
       F                          C         F
Noone dare, disturb the sound of silence
                             C
Fools said I you do not know,
                        F
Silence like a cancer grows,
                   Bb      Csus
Hear my words that I might teach you
                   Bb      Csus
Take my arms that I might reach you
        Bb                               Csus
But my words, like silent raindrops fell...
      F                          C         F
And echoed the will of silence
                             C
And the people bowed and prayed,
                        F
To the neon god they made
                   Bb      Csus
And the sign flashed out its warning
                   Bb      Csus
In the words that it was forming
        Bb                             
And the sign said, "The words of the prophet
                                     Csus
Are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls
       F                       C         F
And whisper the sounds of silence."
**The end of the song contains the same solo as the end of the first verse.