Sound Of Silence Chords & Tabs
my first tab, so please excuse any mistakes
verse 1:
Hel-lo darkness I've come to visit Because a vision
my old friend, you again. softly creeping,
Dm C Dm F Bb F
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Left its seeds while And the vision that was planted in my
I was sleeping, brain still remains,
Bb F F Dm
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verse 2:
Within the Sound In restless dreams Narrow streets of
of Silence. I walked alone, cobble stone
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'Neath the halo of a I turned my collar to When my eyes were stabbed
street lamp, the cold and damp. by the flash of a neon...
Bb F Bb Bb
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light that split and touched the
the night. Sound of Silence.
Dm Dm
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verse 3: And in the naked light i saw, Ten thousand people maybe more. People
without speaking. People hearing without listning. People writing songs that voices never
And no one dared, Disturb the Sound of Silence.
verse 4: "Fools" said I, "You do not know, Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words
I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words like silent
fell, and echoed, Within the Wells of Silence.
verse 5: And the people bowed and prayed, To the neon god they made. And the sign
out its warning, In the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the
are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls, And whispered in the Sounds of Silence."
outro:
Asus Asus Asus
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