Paul Simon Was 21 When He Wrote The Sound of Silence. He Was Describing Exactly What John 1:14 Was Written to Break.

Paul Simon wrote ‘The Sound of Silence’ at 21, alone in a dark bathroom in Queens, three weeks after JFK’s assassination — trying to name the failure of human beings to truly reach each other. The Surgeon General confirmed his diagnosis with data 60 years later. This is what the song is actually about. And the answer it couldn’t find.