Simon and Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversation

Best Of Simon And Garfunkel / 1999-11-09 1. AMERICA 2. At the Zoo 3. Bookends 4. Bridge Over Troubled Water 5. Cecilia 6. EL CONDOR PASA (IF I COULD) 7. Fakin' It 8. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her 9. Hazy Shade of Winter 10. Homeward Bound 11. I Am a Rock 12. MRS. ROBINSON 13. My Little Town 14. Old Friends 15. Scarborough Fair/Canticle 16. Song for the Asking 17. The 59th Street Bridge Song 18. The Boxer 19. The Dangling Conversation 20. The Only Living Boy in New York 21. The Sound Of Silence

The Dangling Conversation

It's a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
The borders of our lives.

And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

Yes, we speak of things that matter,
With words that must be said,
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives.