The Dangling Conversation Lyrics - Joan Baez

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 alliance. 

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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 

And the dangled conversation 

And the superficial sighs, 

Are the borders of our alliance. 

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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 alliance.