The Dangling Conversation

Song The Dangling Conversation
Artist Simon & Garfunkel
Album Tales From New York:The Best Of

Lyrics

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[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