[Em]Hello darkness my old [D]friend
I've come to talk with you [Em]again
Because a vision soft [C]ly [G]creeping
Left his seeds while I [C]was [G]sleeping
And the [C]vision that was planted in my [G]brain
Still re [Em]main [G]within the [D]sound of [Em]silence.
Verse 1:
In restless dreams I walked [D]alone
Narrow streets of cobbled [Em]stone
'Neath the halo of a [C]street [G]lamp
I turned my collar to the [C]cold and [G]damp
When my [C]eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon [G]light
That split the [Em]night [G]and touched the [D]sound of [Em]silence.
Verse 2:
And in the naked light I [D]saw
Ten thousand people maybe [Em]more
People talking with [C]out [G]speaking
People hearing with [C]out [G]listening
People writing [C]songs that voices never [G]share
And no one [Em]dare [G]disturb the [D]sound of [Em]silence
Verse 3:
Fools said I you do not [D]know
Silence like a cancer [Em]grow
Hear my words that I [C]might [G]teach you
Take my arm that I [C]might [G]reach you
But my [C]words like silent raindrops [G]fell
And [Em]echoed in the [D]well of [Em]silence
Verse 4:
And the people bowed and [D]prayed
To the neon god they [Em]made
And the sign flashed [C]out its [G]warning
In the words that it [C]was [G]forming
And the sign said
The [C]words of the prophets are written on the subway [G]walls
And tenement [Em]halls [G]and whispered in the [D]sound of [Em]silence