Sound And Silence chords by Skye Peterson

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: B

🎸 Verse 1:
B                     E
My choir director was harsh but
                G#m     E
It made him the perfect teacher
   B                      E
By waving a wand, he took folks
                      G#m       F#
Who could sing and he made them singers

🎸 Pre-Chorus 1:
  G#m                  E
I didn't enjoy it that much
     B                          F#
Some things that he said really stuck

🎸 Chorus 1:
                 B   E     G#m  E
He said music is sound and silence
B   E     G#m  F#
Sound and silence

🎸 Verse 2:
     B                      E
Paid too much for coffee to go
                    G#m   E
And I wandered the lonely city
  B                        E
I decided that I had grown deaf or
                   G#m   F#
that God just gave up on speaking

🎸 Pre-Chorus 2:
   G#m                   E
It felt like a permanent pause
      B                        F#
But I think it was part of the song

🎸 Chorus 2:
                B  E      G#m  E
One half of the sound and silence
B  E     G#m  F#
Sound and silence

🎸 Verse 3:
        B                         E
Head in hands, I have sobbed on a pew
                   G#m    E
To the sound of an empty church
          B                     E
Where the echo of Sunday’s song dies,
                    G#m      F#
Leaving silence too deep for words

🎸 Pre-Chorus 3:
          G#m                  E
But every beautiful song has a break
      B                        F#
Every pause holds a meaningful place
       G#m                    E
And it sears when the silence begins
       B                          F#
But it sings when the choir comes back in

🎸 Chorus 3:
         B  E      G#m  E
Music is sound and silence
B  E      G#m   F#
Sound and silence
             B  E      G#m  E
Oh, music is sound and silence
B  E      G#m  F#  B
Sound and silence