sorry... I meant I do NOT know the sound of silence...need more coffee
Shirley you know the sound of silence. If not, learn about it below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q
Seriously, I've had tinnitus for several years now. Silence would be very nice sometimes.
(And I'll stop calling you Shirley.)
In the past 20 years, I heard silence for about 60 seconds once in a dentist’s chair, after he had put anesthetic into my jaw near the left ear. (My tinnitus was only on the left side then.) I thought I had discovered a cure! But my dentist said that permanently damaging the nerve would not be a very good idea.