The Sound of Silence (takty) - Simon & Garfunkel(capo 6)

| - Hello darkness, my old | friend |

| . I've come to talk with you a|gain |

| . Because a vision softly|y creeping |

| - Left its seeds while I wa|as sleeping |

|2/4: - And-the | vision that was | planted in my |

| brain, still-re|mains |

| . within the sound of | silence |

In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'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 touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dare - disturb the sound of silence

"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 words like silent raindrops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made.

And the sign flashed its 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 - and whispered in the sounds of silence"