The sound of silence
Capotasto al primo tasto
Rem Do
Hello darkness my old friend
Rem
I've come to talk with you again
Fa Sib Fa
Because a vision softly creeping
Sib Fa
Left his seeds while I was sleeping
Sib Fa
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Rem
Still remain
Fa Do Rem
within the sound of silence.
Do
In restless dreams I walked alone
Rem
Narrow streets of coSibled stone
Fa Sib Fa
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
Sib Fa
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
Sib
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash
Fa
of a neon light
Rem
That split the night
Fa Do Rem
and touched the sound of silence.
Do
And in the naked light I saw
Rem
Ten thousand people maybe more
Fa Sib Fa
People talking without speaking
Sib Fa
People hearing without listening
Sib Fa
People writing songs that voices never share
Rem
And no one dare
Fa Do Rem
disturb the sound of silence
Do
Fools said I you do not know
Rem
Silence like a cancer grow
Fa Sib Fa
Hear my words that I might teach you
Sib Fa
Take my arm that I might reach you
Sib Fa
But my words like silent raindrops fell
Rem Fa Do Rem
and echoed in the well of silence
Do
And the people bowed and prayed
Rem
To the neon god they made
Fa Sib Fa
And the sign flashed out its warning
Sib Fa
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said
Sib
The words of the prophets are written
Fa
on the subway walls
Rem
And tenement halls
Fa Do Rem
and whispered in the sound of silence