The Sound of Silence - Acoustic Version

CAPOTASTO +1 INTRO REm VERSE 1 REm DO Hello darkness, my old friend, REm I’ve come to talk with you again, SIb FA Because a vision softly creeping, SIb FA Left it’s seeds while I was sleeping, SIb FA And the vision that was planted in my brain REm Still remains DO REm Within the sound of silence. VERSE 2 DO In restless dreams I walked alone REm Narrow streets of cobblestone, SIb FA ‘neath the halo of a street lamp, SIb FA I turned my collar to the cold and damp SIb FA When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light REm That split the night DO REm And touched the sound of silence. VERSE 3 DO And in the naked light I saw REm Ten thousand people, maybe more. SIb FA People talking without speaking, SIb FA People hearing without listening, SIb FA People writing songs that voices never share REm And no one dare DO REm Disturb the sound of silence. VERSE 4 DO Fools said i, you do not know REm Silence like a cancer grows. SIb FA Hear my words that I might teach you, SIb FA Take my arms that I might reach you. SIb FA But my words like silent raindrops fell, And echoed DO REm In the wells of silence VERSE 5 DO And the people bowed and prayed REm To the neon God they made. SIb FA And the sign flashed out it’s warning, SIb FA In the words that it was forming. SIb And the sign said, the words of the prophets REm FA Are written on the subway walls FA And tenement halls. DO REm And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.