The Dangling Conversation

Intro.: Eb  Gm  F,   Gm  F  Eb,   Eb Bb  Bb6  Bb7+ Bb6

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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

             Gm
And we sit and drink our coffee
Ab
Couched in our indifference
         G
Like shells upon the shore
                F
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

          Gm
Like a poem poorly written
             Ab
We are verses out of rhythm
G
Couplets out of rhyme
    F
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?


      Gm
And how the room has softly faded
         Ab
And I only kiss your shadow
  G
I cannot feel your hand
              F
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