Sound Of Silence chords by Simon & Garfunkel (Ver. 2)

Guitar chords with lyrics

The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel


Tuning: EADGBE

E minorEm                        D MajorD
   Hello darkness, my old friend,
                           E minorEm
I've come to talk with you again,
                  C majorC     G MajorG
Because a vision soft creeping,
          E minorEm             C majorC     G MajorG
Left it's seeds while I was sleeping,
         C majorC                C/GC/G            G MajorG
And the vision that was planted in my brain
       E minorEm
Still remains
             D MajorD       E minorEm
Within the sound of silence.

 E minorEm                          D MajorD
In restless dreams I walked alone
                        E minorEm
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
 E minorEm                 C majorC        G MajorG
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
              E minorEm           C majorC        G MajorG
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
        C majorC
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon

G MajorG
light
               E minorEm
That split the night
                D MajorD        E minorEm
And touched the sound of silence.

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E minorEm                         D MajorD
  And in the naked light I saw
                           E minorEm
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
E minorEm                C majorC       G MajorG
People talking without speaking,
E minorEm                    C majorC       G MajorG
People hearing without listening,
                 C majorC                       G MajorG
People writing songs that voices never share
           E minorEm
And no one dare
             D MajorD        E minorEm
Disturb the sound of silence.


E minorEm                         D MajorD
 Fools said i, you do not know
                      E minorEm
Silence like a cancer grows.
E minorEm                     C majorC          G MajorG
Hear my words that I might teach you,
E minorEm                    C majorC           G MajorG
Take my arms that I might reach you.
         C majorC                          G MajorG
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
      E minorEm
And echoed
       D MajorD        E minorEm
In the wells of silence


E minorEm                        D MajorD
 And the people bowed and prayed
                     E minorEm
To the neon God they made.
E minorEm                         C majorC       G MajorG
 And the sign flashed out it's warning,
E minorEm                     C majorC     G MajorG
In the words that it was forming.
         E minorEm              C majorC
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
        C majorC                    G MajorG
Are written on the subway walls
               E minorEm
And tenement halls.
                      D MajorD         E minorEm
And whispered in the sounds of silence.

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