[ti:The Dangling Conversation]
[ar:Simon ; Garfunkel]
[al:The Essential Simon & Garfunke]
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[00:00.89]The Dangling Conversation-Simon & Garfunkel
[00:13.54]It's a still life water color,
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[00:17.82]Of a now late afternoon,
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[00:21.63]As the sun shines through the curtained lace
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[00:25.57]And shadows wash the room.
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[00:30.31]And we sit and drink our coffee
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[00:36.31]Couched in our indifference,
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[00:38.83]Like shells upon the shore
[00:41.52]You can hear the ocean roar
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[00:45.24]In the dangling conversation
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[00:49.20]And the superficial sighs,
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[00:53.38]The borders of our lives.
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[00:59.51]And you read your Emily Dickinson,
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[01:03.76]And I my Robert Frost,
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[01:07.57]And we note our place with bookmarkers
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[01:11.51]That measure what we've lost.
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[01:16.26]Like a poem poorly written
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[01:21.67]We are verses out of rhythm,
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[01:25.06]Couplets out of rhyme,
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[01:27.32]In syncopated time
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[01:31.01]Lost in the dangling conversation
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[01:35.14]And the superficial sighs,
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[01:39.08]Are the borders of our lives.
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[01:45.35]Yes, we speak of things that matter,
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[01:49.87]With words that must be said,
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[01:53.62]"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
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[01:57.74]"Is the theater really dead?"
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[02:02.04]And how the room is softly faded
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[02:07.57]And I only kiss your shadow,
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[02:10.57]I cannot feel your hand,
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[02:13.17]You're a stranger now unto me
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[02:16.80]Lost in the dangling conversation.
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[02:21.23]And the superficial sighs,
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[02:25.17]In the borders of our lives