[INTRO]

e|---6---6----
B|-----6------
G|-8---------8
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

6---6-----6---
--6---------6-
--------8-----
--------------
--------------
--------------

6----6---6----
-------6------
---8---------6
--------------
--------------
--------------

-4---4---4---4
---4---6---4--
--------------
--------------
--------------
--------------

-----4---4---4
-------4---6--
---6----------
--------------
--------------
--------------

---4----|
-4------|
--------|
--------|
--------|
--------|

e|---6---6---6
B|-----6---7--
G|-8----------
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

---6-----6---6
-6---------6--
-------8------
--------------
--------------
--------------

---6---6-----7
-7---6--------
-----------8--
--------------
--------------
--------------

---7----6---6-
-7--------7---
------6-------
--------------
--------------
--------------

--7-6---6---6-
------7-------
----------6---
--------------
--------------
--------------

--6-----|
7-------|
--------|
--------|
--------|
--------|

e|---7---7----
B|-----7------
G|-8--------6-
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

6---6---7-6---
--7---------7-
--------------
--------------
--------------
--------------

6----7---7----
-------7------
---8---------9
--------------
--------------
--------------

-7---7----7---
---7--------7-
--------8-----
--------------
--------------
--------------

7----7---7---2
-------7------
---9-------3--
--------------
--------------
--------------

---2----|
-2------|
--------|
--------|
--------|
--------|

e|---2---2----
B|-----2------
G|-4--------3-
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

2---2-----2---
--2---------2-
--------3-----
--------------
--------------
--------------

2----2---2----
-------2------
---3---------6
--------------
--------------
--------------

-4---4---4---4
---6---4---6--
--------------
--------------
--------------
--------------

-----6---6---6
-------6---7--
---8----------
--------------
--------------
--------------

---6----|
-6------|
--------|
--------|
--------|
--------|


[Verse 1]

           
Hello darkness

            
 my old friend

              
, I've come to

              
 talk to you a

  
gain.
            
Because a visi

             
on softly cree

 
ping,
              
left its seeds

             
 while I was s

   
leeping
             
And the vision

              
 that was plan

         
ted in my brai

n,
           
still remains,

            
 within the so

        
und of silence

.


[Verse 2]

           
In restless dr

              
eams I walked 

            
alone through 

              
narrow streets

            
 of cobbleston


e.
            
Beneath the ha

             
lo of a street

 
 lamp,
              
I turned my co

             
llar to the co

      
ld and damp.
             
When my eyes w

              
ere stabbed by

              
 a flash of th

      
e neon light,
              
and split the 

         
night, and tou

            
ched the sound

       
 of silence.


[Verse 3]

           
And in the nak

            
ed light I saw

              
, ten thousand

              
 people maybe 

  
more.
            
People talking

             
 without speak


ing,
              
people hearing

             
 without liste


ning.
              
People writing

             
 songs that vo

          
ices never sha

red,
           
no one dared, 

            
disturb the so

        
und of silence

.


[Verse 4]

           
"Fools," said 

              
I, "you do not

            
 know, silence

              
 like a cancer

   
 grows.
            
Hear my words 

             
that I might t

     
each you,
              
take my arms t

             
hat I might re

   
ach you."
             
But my words l

              
ike silent rai

      
ndrops fell,
           
echoed in the 

         
wells of silen

ce.


[Verse 5]

           
And the people

            
 bowed and pra

              
yed, to the ne

              
on god they ma


de.
            
And the sign f

             
lashed out it 

      
s warning,
              
in the words t

             
hat it was for


ming.  And the

 sign said:
             
"The words of 

              
the prophets a

              
re written on 

          
the subway wal

ls;
             
and tenement h

#          
alls," and whi

             
spered the sou

#         
nds of silence

.