Hello darkness, my old friend     [Verse] D    D

I've come to talk with you again          Em   Em

Because a vision softly creeping          C-G  G

Left its seeds while I was sleeping       C-G (G½)

And the vision that was planted           C     C

    in my brain - Still remains           G    G

Within the sound of silence              (G½)

                                          D    Em

In restless dreams, I walked alone              Em-X

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a street lamp              [Intro]

I turned my collar to the cold and damp       Em Em

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash

    of a neon light - That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

                                              [Verse]

And in the naked light I saw                 (G) (…)

Ten thousand people, maybe more      ╔════════════╗

People talking without speaking      ║ The Sound  ║

People hearing without listening     ║ of Silence ║

People writing songs that voices     ║  Simon &   ║

    never shared - And no one dared  ║ Garfunkel  ║

Disturb the sound of silence         ╚════════════╝

Fools, said I, you do not know                [Verse]

Silence, like a cancer, grows                (…) (G)

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               [Verse]

To the neon god they made                   (G) (G)

And the sign flashed out 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 sound of silence