Chords for Lukas Nelson - "Sound Of Silence" Paul Simon Cover (Quarantunes Evening Session)

_ This is a great American tune _ written by a native New Yorker, Paul Simon.
And there's a lot happening in New York right now.
And if we all don't encourage each other _ to bunker down,
_ then it might happen all over this country.
_ _ _ So don't be silent.
Encourage your friends and loved ones to stay indoors. _ _
This is a Paul Simon song called The Sound of Silence, dedicated to New York. _
_ [B] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ Hello darkness my old [G] friend
I _ have come to talk with [Am] you again
_ _ _ Because a vision softly [C] _ creeping _ _
Left its seeds while I [G] was [C] sleeping
The _ [G] vision that was planted in [C] my brain
_ Still [Am] remains _ _ _ [G] within the sound [Am] of silence
_ _ _ _ Restless dreams I walked [G] _ along
_ _ Narrow streets of [Am] _ cobblestone
_ _ Beneath the halo [F] of a golden [C] lamp
I turned my collar to [G] the cold [C] and damp
When my [F] eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
_ That split [Am] the night _
_ [C] and touched the [G] sound _ of [Am] silence
_ _ _ And in the naked light I saw
_ Ten thousand people, maybe more
_ _ _ People talking [G] without [C] speaking
_ People hearing [F] without [C] listening
_ _ People [F] writing songs
That voices _ [C] never _ shared
No [Am] one dared _ _ [C] disturb [G] the sound [Am] of silence
_ _ Fools said I do not _ know
_ Silence like a cancer [F#] _ [Am] grove
_ Hear my words that I [F] might teach [C] you
_ Take my arms [G] that I might reach you
But [F] my _ [G] words like silent [C] raindrops fell
_ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [G] Echoed _ _ _ [Am] in the silence
_ _ _ And the people bowed [G] and prayed
_ _ _ To the neon gods they made
_ And the sign flashed out [F] its warning
[C] _ _ With the words that it [F] was [C] forming
_ And the sign [F] said the words of the prophets
Are written on the [C] subway walls
And tenement [Am] halls _
_ [C] [G] Whispered in the sound of _
_ [E] silence _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _