songbook/Simon_Garfunkel/The_sounds_of_silence.sg

\songcolumns{2}
\beginsong{The sounds of silence}
  [by=Simon \& Garfunkel,cov=the-definitive]

  \capo{7}
  \cover
  \gtab{Lam}{X02210}
  \gtab{Sol}{320003}
  \gtab{Fa}{1:022100}
  \gtab{Do}{X32010}

  \beginverse
    \[Lam]Hello darkness, my old \[Sol]friend,
    I've come to talk with you a\[Lam]gain,
    Because a vi\[Do]sion sof\[Fa]tly cree\[Do]ping,
    Left its seeds while I \[Fa]was slee\[Do]ping,
    And the \[Fa]vision that was planted in my \[Do]brain
    Still re\[Lam]mains
    Wi\[Do]thin the \[Sol]sound of \[Lam]silence.
  \endverse

  \beginverse
    In restless dreams I walked alone
    Narrow streets of cobblestone,
    Neath the halo of a street lamp,
    I turned my collar to the cold and damp
    When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
    That split the night
    And touched the sound of silence.
  \endverse

  \beginverse
    And in the naked light I saw
    Ten thousand people, maybe more.
    People talking without speaking,
    People hearing without listening,
    People writing songs that voices never share
    And no one dared
    Disturb the sound of silence.
  \endverse

  \beginverse
    ``Fools'' said I, ``You don't know
    Silence's like a cancer grows.
    Hear my words and I might teach you,
    Take my arms and I might reach you.''
    But my words like silence raindrops fell,
    And echoed
    In the wells of silence.
  \endverse

  \beginverse
    And the people bowed and prayed
    To the neon god they made.
    And the sign flashed out its warning,
    In the words that it was forming.
    And the sign said, ``The words of the prophets
    Are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls.''
    And whispered in the sound of silence.
  \endverse

\endsong