To be silent to him is kind of like a cancer. In this dream he's trying to express himself, he's trying to make himself understood. But as he tries to help the people, all we hear is silence; we hear nothing. From his perspective the people need help, but maybe he's the fool.

Garfunkel once said the song is about "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly intentionally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."

"I liked it very much… It was accomplished very well". Also during the chat, Simon admitted to having called Disturbed singer David Draiman at some point and told him that he enjoyed their version.

In 1964, the American music duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel released a song titled The Sound of Silence. Garfunkel, one half of the duo and co-writer of the famous song, summed up the meaning of this song by stating, “this is a song about the inability of people to communicate with each other” (Patton, 2023).