Lyric discussion by Indi1994 

Cover art for The Sound of Silence lyrics by Simon and Garfunkel

for some reason i find this song to have a haunting and almost sinister sound. it is rather sad. i almost associate it with war and death for some unknown reason. Any ideas why?

Because it provokes self awareness and at the same time warns of waking up from the sleep of reason,otherwise monsters will be born.That is why it is creepy not to mention the other innuendos with the shalowness and the false gods.HUGE criticism towards human society.It seems that the author feels more secure hidden in darkness as between his own kind,as if he were right about spotting the evil among us..Ah and the neon god is the tv but nobody seemed to notice that.Anyway I find the author highly paranoid and contagious,war instigating really in a Jehovas Whitness kind...

I think it's a very beautiful, but sad song. My interpretation is that it was written about how societies were more populated than there had ever been before - but also more deprived of reality and humanity than previous societies. It is a song about death - death of cultural capital and the warmth of genuine human interaction that comes with it. It's (unwittingly perhaps) referring to the monumental economic failures of the 20th century - where production of things and the GDP of nations exploded amongst the prevalence of commercialism/pop-culture etc, but the actual quality of people's lives was...

My Interpretation

@Indi1994 Listen to Disturb's version and you can see and feel the darkness even further.