Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Author And Composer: Paul Simon
For the original Ton - Capo in fret 5
Em D
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Hello darkness, my old friend
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Em
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I've come to talk with you again
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C G
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Because a vision softly creeping
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C G
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Left its seeds while I was sleeping
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C
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And the vision that was planted
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G
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In my brain
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G/F# Em
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Still remains
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G D Em
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Within the sound of silence
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D
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In restless dreams I walked alone
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Em
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Narrow streets of cobblestone
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C G
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'neath the halo of a street lamp
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I turned my collar
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C G
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To the cold and damp
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C
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When my eyes were stabbed
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G
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By the flash of a neon light
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G/F# Em
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That split the night
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G D Em
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And touched the sound of silence
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D
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And in the naked light I saw
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Em
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Ten thousand people, maybe more
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C G
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People talking without speaking
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C G
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People hearing without listening
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C
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People writing songs
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G
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That voices never share
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G/F# Em
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And no one dare
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G D Em
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Disturb the sound of silence
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D
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Fools said I, you do not know
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Em
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Silence like a cancer grows
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C G
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Hear my word that I might teach you
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C G
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Take my arms that I might reach you
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C
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But my words like silent
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G G/F# Em
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Raindrops fell
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G
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And echoed
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D Em
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In the wells of silence
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D
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And the people bowed and prayed
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Em
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To the neon God they made
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C G
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And the sign flashed out it warning
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C G
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In the words that it was forming
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And the sign said
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C
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The words of the prophets
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G
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Are written on the subway walls
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G G/F# Em
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And tenement halls
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G D
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And whisper'd in the sounds
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Em
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Of silence
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