Sound of Silence

 {t: Sounds of Silence }  
{key: Am}  
{artist:Paul Simon}  
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[Am] Hello darkness, my old [G] friend, I`ve come to talk to you a-[Am]-gain, - - - because a [C] vision softly [F] is cree-[C]-ping, left its seeds while I [F] was slee-[C]-ping, - - - and the [F] vision that was planted in my [C] brain, still re-[Am]-mains, within the [G] sound of  [Am] silence.   
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[Am] In restless dreams I walked  a-[G]-lone,  thru narrow streets of cobble-[Am]-stone. - - - `Neath the [C] halo of [F] a cold street [C] lamp, I turned my collar to the [F] cold and [C] damp, - - - when my [F] eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon [C] light, that split the [Am] night - and touched the [G] sound of [Am] silence.   
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[Am] And in the naked light I [G] saw, ten thousand people, maybe [Am] more, - - - people [C] talking wi-[F]-thout spea-[C]-king, people hearing wi-[F]-thout [C] listening, - - - people writing [F] songs that voices never [C] share,  and no-one [Am] dare - disturb the [G] sounds of [Am] silence.   
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[Am] Fools, said I, you do not [G] know, silence like a cancer [Am] grows, - - - hear my [C] words, that I [F] might teach [C] you, take my arms that I [F] might reach [C] you, - - - But my [F] words like silent raindrops [C] fell -  [Am]  and echoed in the [G] wells of  [Am] silence.   
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[Am] And the people bowed and [G] prayed to the neon god they`d [Am] made. - - - And the [C] sign flashed out [F] its war-[C]-ning, in the words that it [F] was for-[C]-ming. - - -  And the sign said, the [F] words of the prophets are written in the subway [C] walls, and tenement [Am] halls, and whispered in the [G] sounds - of [Am] silence.