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 {t: Sounds of Silence }  \r\n{key: Am}  \r\n{artist:Paul Simon}  \r\n-\r\n[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.   \r\n-\r\n[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.   \r\n-\r\n[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.   \r\n-\r\n[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.   \r\n-     \r\n[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.    \t\t\t\t<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{t: Sounds of Silence } {key: Am} {artist:Paul Simon} – [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 … CLICK TO VIEW SONGSound of Silence<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28588,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/28588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}