CAPO @ 6TH FRET
Intro:
Picking pattern x 3
Verse:
Am(strum & hold) G G
Hello darkness, my old friend,
Am Am
I”ve come to talk with you again,
|F C| C
Because a vision softly creeping,
|F C| C (2/4)
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
F F
And the vision that was planted in my
|C – – C/B| Am Am(2/4)
Brain ….Still remains
G Am Am(strum & hold)
Within the sound of silence.
Verse: (strumming begins)
G G
In restless dreams I walked alone
Am Am
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
|F C| C
“neath the halo of a street lamp,
|F C| C (2/4)
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
F F
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon
|C – – C/B| Am Am(2/4)
Light That split the night
G Am Am
And touched the sound of silence.
Verse:
G G
And in the naked light I saw
Am Am
Ten thousand people, maybe more
|F C| C
People talking without speaking,
|F C| C (2/4)
People hearing without listening,
F F
People writing songs that voices never
|C – – C/B| Am Am(2/4)
Share and no one dare
G Am Am
Disturb the sound of silence.
Verse:
G G
Fools said I, you do not know
Am Am
Silence like a cancer grows.
|F C| C
Hear my words that I might teach you,
|F C| C (2/4)
Take my arms that I might reach you
F F
But my words like silent raindrops
|C – – C/B| Am Am(2/4)
Fell…and echoed
G Am Am
In the wells of silence
Verse:
G G
And the people bowed and prayed
Am Am
To the neon God they made.
|F C| C
And the sign flashed out its warning,
|F C| C (2/4)
In the words that it was forming.
F
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
F
Are written on the subway
|C – – C/B| Am Am(2/4)
Walls, and tenement halls.
G Am (hold or play intro)
And whisper”d in the sounds of silence.