The Dangling Conversation

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It's a still life water color
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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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Cast in our indifference, like shells upon the shore
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You can hear the ocean roar
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In the dangling conversation, and the superficial sighs
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The borders of our lives

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And you read your Emily Dickenson
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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, Couplets out of rhyme
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In syncopated time
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And the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs
                       G     Em
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 theater really dead?
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And how the room is softly faded
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And I only kiss your shadow, 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, And the superficial sighs
                      G     Em
In the borders of our lives