Sound

of Silence


Deux Violoncelles et Guitare

  44    
     
 = 84  = 84 +4
1
+4
Violoncelle

  44    
Hel lo dark ness my old

        
  44          
Violoncelle

Guitare 


 2    2

            
   
5
4
-1
VCI

    
friend, I've come to talk with you a gain.

              

VCII

Gui
   



         
                42
8

VCI

    
   42
Be cause a vi sion soft ly creep ing left its seeds while I was sleep ing.

  
  
VCII

Gui
   42
     
  42  44         

 

 2
   4
 
12

VCI

  42 44  2
4
    
And the vi sion that was plant ed in my brain Still re mains

 
VCII

  2  44    
Gui 4 42

 
  42   44   



             
17

VCI

  42 44

with in the sound of si lence. In rest less dreams I walked a

  
    
VCII

Gui
  42  44 

    
         
         
21

VCI

 
lone, nar row streets of cob ble stone. 'Neath the ha lo of a

   
        
          
VCII

         


Gui

       
                  42 
44
  
25

VCI

   
42 
44
    
street lamp, I turned my col lar to the cold and damp, When my

 
VCII

    
42
Gui
 44

2
         
  44       
 
     2
4
  
29

VCI

  44  2
4
 
eyes were stabbed by the flash of a ne on light that split

VCII
  
  4    
Gui 4 42

  42   44   
      

33

VCI

  42 44

and touched the sound of si lence.

 
       
VCII

Gui
  42  44 

        

            

36

VCI

 

In rest less dreams I walked a lone, ten thou sand peo ple may be

    
       
          
VCII

Gui          

     
 
            
       

39

VCI

  
  
more, Peo ple talk ing with out speak ing, peo ple hear ing with out

  

  
VCII

  


Gui

3
     
          
   
  2
4   44   
43

VCI

   2 44
  4 
listen ing, peo ple writ ing songs that voi ces ne ver share.

  
VCII

  
42
Gui
 44  

       
     
   42   44  

47

VCI

    2 44
    4  
And no one dared dis turb the sound of

VCII
 

Gui
    42  44 


      
         

51

VCI

 
si lence. "Fools," said I, "you do not know

  
      
                  
VCII

Gui       

 
      

                

54

VCI

  
 
si lence, like a can cer, grows. hear my words that I might teach you,

   
 

VCII

  
    



Gui

4
            
     2   4 
4  4  
58

VCI

   2 44
   4 
take my arms that I might reach you." But my words, like

 
VCII

   
42
Gui
 44 

             
           

62

VCI

  
           
si lent rain drops, fell. wells of si lence.


  
VCII

Gui
     

           
         


67

VCI

 

And the peo ple bowed and prayed, to the ne on God

    
       
         
VCII

  
Gui        


   
         
    
70

VCI

  
 
they made, And the sign flashed out its warn ing

  

  
VCII

 


Gui

5
           
       

73

VCI

  
   
and the words that it was form ing, And the sign said, "the


VCII

Gui
    

                 
         
76

VCI

 

words of the pro phets are writ ten the sub way walls and ten e ment

 
VCII

Gui
    

              

         

79

VCI

    

halls and whis pered in the sound of si lence."

  
 
VCII

Gui
      


    
84

VCI

 
                
                 
VCII

Gui
