The Dangling Conversation

Simon & Garfunkel

Tom: A#

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It's a still life watercolor 
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Of a now late afternoon 
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As the sun shines through the curtain lace 
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And shadows wash the room 
 
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And we sit and drink our coffee 
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Couched in our indifference 
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Like shells upon the shore 
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You can hear the ocean roar 
 
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In the dangling conversation 
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And the superficial sighs 
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The borders of our lives 
 
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And you read your Emily Dickinson 
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And I my Robert Frost 
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And we note our place with bookmarkers 
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That measure what we've lost 
 
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Like a poem poorly written 
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We are verses out of rhythm 
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Couplets out of rhyme 
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In syncopated time. 
 
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And the dangling conversation 
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And the superficial sighs 
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Are the borders of our lives 
 
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Yes we speak of things that matter 
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With words that must be said 
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Can analysis be worthwhile? 
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Is the theatre really dead? 
 
 
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And how the room has softly faded	 
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And I only kiss your shadow 
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I cannot feel your hand 
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You're a stranger now unto me 
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Lost in the dangling conversation 
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And the superficial sighs 
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In the borders of our lives