The Sound Of Silence

{"acf_content":"[Verse 1]\nEbm                        Db\n   Hello darkness, my old friend,\n                            Ebm\nI've come to talk with you again,\n                      B      Gb\nBecause a vision softly creeping,\n                        B       Gb\nLeft its seeds while I was sleeping,\n        B                             Gb\nAnd the vision that was planted in my brain\n            Gb\/B Ebm    Gb\nStill remains\n           Db        Ebm\nWithin the sound of silence.\n \n[Verse 2]\n                             Db\nIn restless dreams I walked alone\n                        Ebm\nNarrow streets of cobblestone,\n                    B        Gb\n'neath the halo of a street lamp,\n                          B         Gb\nI turned my collar to the cold and damp\n        B                                         Gb\nWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light\n                    Gb\/B Ebm    Gb\nThat split the night\n                Db        Ebm\nAnd touched the sound of silence.\n \n[Verse 3]\n                         Db\nAnd in the naked light I saw\n                           Ebm\nTen thousand people, maybe more.\n                    B       Gb\nPeople talking without speaking,\n                    B       Gb\nPeople hearing without listening,\n               B                         Gb\nPeople writing songs that voices never share\n               Gb\/B Ebm    Gb\nAnd no one dare\n            Db        Ebm\nDisturb the sound of silence.\n \n[Verse 4]\n                         Db\nFools said I, you do not know\n                      Ebm\nSilence like a cancer grows.\n                      B           Gb\nHear my words that I might teach you,\n                     B           Gb\nTake my arms that I might reach you.\n       B                           Gb        Gb\/B Ebm\nBut my words like silent raindrops fell,\n    Gb             Db        Ebm\nAnd echoed in the wells of silence\n \n[Verse 5]\n                         Db\nAnd the people bowed and prayed\n                     Ebm\nTo the neon God they made.\n                          B      Gb\nAnd the sign flashed out its warning,\n                      B      Gb\nIn the words that it was forming.\n                       B\nAnd the sign said, the words of the prophets\n                           Gb\nAre written on the subway walls\n                  Gb\/B Ebm\nAnd tenement halls\n    Gb                Db         Ebm\nAnd whisper'd in the sounds of silence.\n","acf_video_url":"","acf_key_signature":"E Flat Minor","key_signature_slug":[],"artists":[],"artist_slug":[],"title":"The Sound Of Silence","slug":"the-sound-of-silence","dateCreated":"2024-09-01T13:03:00+00:00","post_type":"song"}