Dm C
Hello darkness, my old friend
Dm
I've come to talk with you again
F Bb F
Because a vision softly creeping
Bb F
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
Bb F
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Dm
Still remains
F C Dm
Within the sounds of silence
Dm C
In restless dreams I walked alone
Dm
Through narrow streets of cobblestone
F Bb F
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
Bb F
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
Bb F
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
Dm
That split the night
F C Dm
And touched the sounds of silence
Dm C
And in the naked light I saw
Dm
Ten thousand people, maybe more
F Bb F
People talking without speaking
Bb F
People hearing without listening
Bb F
People writing songs that voices never shared
Dm
And no one dared
F C Dm
Disturb the sounds of silence
Dm C
'Fools' said I, 'You do not know
Dm
Silence like a cancer grows
F Bb F
Hear my words that I might teach you
Bb F
Take my arms that I might reach you'
Bb F
But my words like silent raindrops fell
Dm F
And echoed
C Dm
In the wells of silence
C
And the people bowed and prayed
Dm
To the neon god they made
F Bb F
And the sign flashed out its warning
Bb F
In the words that it was forming
Bb
And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets
F
Are written on the subway walls
Dm
And tenement halls'
F C Dm
And whispered in the sounds of silence
Composição de Paul Simon