Тональность

 
       Am            G
Hello darkness my old friend, 
                     Am
I’ve come to talk with you again. 
     C            F            C
Because a vision softly creeping 
             F                 C
Left it’s seed while I was sleeping, 
            F                         C
And the vision that was planted in my brain 
     Am
Still remains 
  C     G             Am
Within the sounds of silence. 
 
       Am            G
In restless dreams I walked alone, 
                     Am
Narrow streets of cobble stone. 
     C            F            C
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp, 
             F                 C
I turned my collar to the cold and damp, 
            F                         C
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light 
     Am
That split the night 
  C     G             Am
And touched the sounds of silence. 
 
       Am            G
And in the naked light I saw 
                     Am
Ten thousand people, maybe more. 
     C            F           C
People talking without speaking, 
             F                 C
People hearing without listening, 
            F                         C
People writing songs that voices never shared, 
     Am
And no one dared 
  C     G             Am
Disturb the sounds of silence. 
 
       Am            G
“Fools!” said I, “you do not know, 
                     Am
Silence like a cancer grows. 
     C            F           C
Hear my words that I might teach you, 
             F                 C
Take my arms that might reach you.” 
            F            C         Am
But my words like silent raindrops fell 
  C     G             Am
And echoed in the wells of silence. 
 
       Am            G
And the people bowed and prayed 
                     Am
To the neon gods they made. 
     C            F            C
And the sign flashed its warning, 
             F                 C
In the words that it was forming, 
            F                         C
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are  
          C
written on the subway walls 
     Am
And tenement halls.” 
  C     G             Am
And whispered in the sounds of silence.