Hello darkness, my old friend     [Verse] Bb    Bb

I've come to talk with you again          Cm   Cm

Because a vision softly creeping          G#-D#  D#

Left its seeds while I was sleeping       G#-D# (D#½)

And the vision that was planted           G#     G#

    in my brain - Still remains           D#    D#

Within the sound of silence              (D#½)

                                          Bb    Cm

In restless dreams, I walked alone              Cm-X

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a street lamp              [Intro]

I turned my collar to the cold and damp       Cm Cm

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                 (D#) (…)

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                (…) (D#)

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                   (D#) (D#)

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