Sounds of Silence

Paul Simon / Simon and Garfunkel

	Am	G	Am
	Hello darkness my old	friend, I've come to talk with you a	gain.

	C	F	C	F	C
Because a	vision soft	ly cree	ping - Left it's seed while I	was slee	ping,

	F	C	Am
And the vis	ion that was planted in my	brain - Still re	mains:

In restless dreams I walked alone, Narrow streets of cobble stone.

'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp,

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light - That split the night:

And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more.

People talking without speaking, People hearing without list'ning,

People writing songs that voices never shared, No one dare:

"Fools!" said I, "you do not know, Silence like a cancer grows.

Hear my words that I might teach you, Take my arms that I might reach you."

But my word like silent raindrops fell -

And the people bowed and prayed To the neon gods they made.

And the sign flashed out it's warning, In the words that it was forming,

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

- And tenement halls."