They do mean the same thing, depending on the metric.

No one has the same belief system. So, yes.

This is a bit of a rhetorical question, isn't it?

hahaha... no.

stillers

Jeffrey Tambor from Arrested Development

Ah, Richard Ashcroft, you depressive little bugger. This is the saddest song ever composed... but at the same time, uplifting. How does he do it?

Allegedly, I wrote this a couple years ago...
but it hardly makes sense now. Ah, I guess the Muse exists only in a fraction of space and time. Anyway, tell me what you think!

The darkness,
a void from which there is no escaping.
The silence,
devoid of sound or color; suffocating.
Yet just on the edge of this there is faceless noise,
of women alternating:
singing hymns and chattering.
Reaching,
a fruitless hand seeks forth finding only cold.
Striving,
for a light always just out of reach.
Yearning,
for the warmth of that outward noise.
The darkness,
a void from which there is no escaping.
The silence,
devoid of sound or color; suffocating.