That's the way I read it, too. If you've lost a loved one, and are missing them terribly, you are left with silence. They are gone, vanished, they no longer have a voice. One day you can see them, touch them, and talk to them, but in an instant they have vanished and in their place you only have the emptiness of silence.
It sure beats the heck out of someone performing the song "Imagine."
Amen
I agree with you. While the 3000 voices are silent, most of America has gone back to worshiping their neon god which represents material things.