The Sound Of Silence bass tab by Disturbed

Bass tabs

Tuning: Standard (E A D G)

Verse 1:
  Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again
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  Because a vision softly-y creeping, Left it's seeds while I wa-as sleeping
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  And the vision that was planted in my brain
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  still remains within the sound of silence
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Verse 2:
  In restless dreams I walked a-lone, Narrow streets of cobblestone
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  'Neath the halo of a-aa street lamp, I  turned my collar to the co-old and damp
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  When my eyes were stabbed, by the flash of a neon light
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  That split the night, and touched the sound of silence
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Verse 3:
  And in the naked light I saw, Ten thousand people, maybe more
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  People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening
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  People writing songs, that voices never share,
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  And no one dare, Disturb the sound of silence
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Verse 4:
  "Fools" said I, "you do not know, Silence like a cancer grows
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  Hear my words that I mi-ight teach you; take my arms that I mi-ight reach you"
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  But my words li-ike silent raindrops fell, And echoed in the wells of silence
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  And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made
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  And the sign flashed out it's warning, and the words that it wa-as forming
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  And the sign said, "The words of the prophets, are written on the subway walls
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  And tenement halls", and whispered in the sound of silence
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