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In fact, Garfunkel had never left Greenberg’s side.

He recognized the voice - it was his friend who had just left a few hours back for an “urgent assignment.” Greenberg calls it “the worst couple of hours in my life.” At the university, Greenberg bumped into a man who apologized to him. He somehow managed to get back to the university, bumping into people and things. Suddenly, Greenberg was left alone in the crowd, completely terrified and not knowing what to do. One day, Garfunkel told his friend at Grand Central Station that he had to immediately leave for an assignment. Garfunkel called himself “Darkness” when he was around Greenberg, a sign of empathy toward his friend. And Garfunkel changed his life at the university to accommodate his blind friend, helping him walk to class, tending to wounds, walking together in the city, filling out forms for him, and so on. In college, Greenberg was completely dependent on his friend. After much insistence from his friend, Greenberg agreed and enrolled in the university once more. It was then that Garfunkel came to him and talked Greenberg into going back to Columbia. Greenberg stopped talking to people and isolated himself. Psychologically, he was intensely depressed. He was watching a baseball game when he experienced his vision becoming cloudy. As such, the young man dropped out of college. Since Greenberg came from a simple home, his family did not have the money to help him out. It was later found that glaucoma had destroyed Greenberg’s optic nerves. Though the doctors diagnosed that he was suffering from conjunctivitis and the blindness would soon pass, it did not. Just months later, Greenberg lost his sight. The two young men made a pact to always be there for each other when faced with trouble. It was Garfunkel who initiated the contact, coming over to say “Hi.” Soon, the two became roommates and found that they shared a common interest in music and poetry. Greenberg and Garfunkel met in their first week at Columbia University. The friendshipĪccording to Greenberg, the song was a tribute to his strong bond with Garfunkel and the latter’s sacrifice, which ended up providing comfort to Greenberg when he lost his sight. Created by Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, the song has an interesting story behind it - one that concerns Art Garfunkel and his close friend Sanford Greenberg. In 2012, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being culturally important. The Sound of Silence is a song released in 1965 by Simon and Garfunkel that became a smash hit worldwide, making it to the top 10 list in the U.S., the UK, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan.