Chords for SIMON+GARFUNKEL-The Sound of Silence, 1968, byRatpie

_ There are times when I'm singing one of Paul's songs that I
[G#m] feel the song is really very personal [D#] and probably shouldn't be sung by anyone other than the writer, but
there are other songs that
Go beyond [A#] one person _ _ _
_ _ _ Hello darkness [C#] my old friend
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] As a vision [B] softly _ [F#] creeping
_ Left its seeds while I [B] was [F#] sleeping
_ _ And the vision _ that was planted in my [F#] brain
_ _ still remains
[A#] _
[F#] _ Within [C#] the sound [D#m] of silence
_ _ In restless dreams I [C#] walked alone
_ _ _ Narrow streets of [D#m] cobblestone
_ _ _ _ [F#] Meet my evil [B] of a [F#] streetlight
_ I turn my color to the cold and damp _
[B] When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon [F#] light
_ _ [B] Slip a neck [F] and
_ [F#] _ touch [C#] the sound of _
[D#m] _ silence
_ And in the naked [C#] light I saw
[A#m] _ _ [C#] Ten thousand people [D#m] maybe more
_ _ _ People [F#]
talking [B] without [F#] speaking
_ _ People hearing [Bm] without [F#] listening
_ People writing [B] _ songs
That voice I never [F#] shared
No [C#] one [D#m] did
_ [F#] _ [C#] Disturb the sound _
[D#m] of silence
_ _ No sound to [C#] none
No sound to none
_ _ Silence like [D#m] a cancer _ grows
_ Hear [F#] my words and I might teach you
_ Take my arms and [B] I might [F#] beat you
_ [B] But my words like _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ _ _ silence
_ Have _ [F#] _ echoed [C#] in the world _
[D#m] Of silence
_ _ And the people [C#]
bowed and prayed
_ _ To the neon god [D#m] they made
_ _ _ [C#] And the sign [B]
flashed [F#] its warning
_ In the words [B] that it was [F#] for me
_ And the sign [B] said the words of the prophets of
_ _ _ [F#] _
_ And gentlemen of
[D#m] _ [F#] And this new _ [C#] sound
[A#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A#m] _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _