The Dangling Conversation

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

The old music is STILL the best music.

The Dangling Conversation
Simon & Garfunkel

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
And 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.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. I am still looking for America....

Simon and Garfunkel Lyrics:
America


"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together."
"I've got some real estate here in my bag."
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America

"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America

Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera"

"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field

"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America

[meganmonkey]

2. Feel the tug at the heartstrings

Both amazing songs - grew up on 'em thanks to my dad.
America still makes me cry EVERY time I hear it.

[dbt]

3. Ever heard the version of "America" by Yes?

Seemed pretty decent to me, but I may have been stoned that decade!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[meganmonkey]

4. Missed that one,

assuming you mean the 70's, I was 6 when they ended. Dad wasn't much of a Yes fan, although I've learned to appreciate them since.

(btw, i was stoned most of the last decade, and a good portion of this one so far :evilgrin:)