Sound Of Silence(Chords)

	        
Em                                      D                                             Em 
Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, 
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Because a vision soft creeping, Left it's seeds while I was sleeping, 
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And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence. 
Melody 
 Em                                  D                                                   Em 
In restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone, 
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'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp 
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When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light 
                                Em                     D                Em 
That split the night and touched the sound of silence. 
                                   D                                                    Em 
And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more. 
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People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, 
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People writing songs that voices never share and no one dare, disturb the sound of silence. 
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Fools said i, you do not know silence like a cancer grows. 
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Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you. 
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But my words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence 
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And the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made. 
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And the sign flashed out it's warning, in the words that it was forming. 
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And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls 
               Em                                               D              Em       
And tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
	        

Written by Paul Simon