Sound of Silence
1966 — Simon and Garfield
Key: Em (D-D-DUD-)
Version 1 (2018-10-08)
 
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Hello darkness my old  
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friend  
 
 
I've come to talk with you a 
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-gain  
 
 
Because a vision soft 
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-ly creep 
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-ing  
 
 
Left his seeds while I  
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was sleep 
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-ing  
 
 
And the  
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vision that was planted in my  
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brain  
 
 
Still remains  
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within the  
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sound of  
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silence.  
 
 
 
 
 
In restless dreams I walked a 
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-lone  
 
 
Narrow streets of cobbled  
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stone  
 
 
'Neath the halo of  
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a street  
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lamp  
 
 
I turned my collar to the  
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cold and  
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damp  
 
 
When my  
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eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon  
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light  
 
 
That split the night  
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and touched the  
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sound of  
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silence.  
 
 
 
 
 
And in the naked light I  
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saw  
 
 
Ten thousand people maybe  
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more  
 
 
People talking with 
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out speak 
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-ing  
 
 
People hearing with 
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out listen 
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-ing  
 
 
People writing  
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songs that voices never  
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share  
 
 
And no one dare  
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. disturb the  
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sound of  
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silence  
 
 
 
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Fools said I you do not  
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know  
 
 
Silence like a cancer  
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grows  
 
 
Hear my words that I  
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might teach  
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you  
 
 
Take my arms that I  
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might reach  
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you  
 
 
But my  
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words like silent raindrops  
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fell  
 
 
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.... And  
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echoed in the  
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well of  
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silence  
 
 
 
 
 
And the people bowed and  
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prayed  
 
 
To the neon god they  
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made  
 
 
And the sign flashed out  
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its warn 
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-ing  
 
 
In the words that it  
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was form 
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-ing  
 
 
And the sign said  
 
 
The  
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words of the prophets are written on the subway  
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walls  
 
 
And tenement halls  
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and whispered in the  
 
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sound of  
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silence