The Dangling Conversation Chords

THE DANGLING CONVERSATION
As reorded by Simon & Garfunkel
(From the 1966 Album PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND THYME)
 
[Intro]
Eb Bb F   Bb F/C Eb/Bb
Eb   Bb  Bb6  Bb7  Bb6
 
[Verse 1]
Bb6    Eb         Bb    F
It's a still life water color
     Eb       Bb   F
Of a now late afternoon
       Eb         Bb          F
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
    Bb               Bb6  Bbmaj7  Bb6
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
       Eb       Bb    F
In the dangling conversation
        Bb   F      Eb
And the superficial sighs
                   Bb    Bb6  Bbmaj7  Bb6
The borders of our lives
 
[Verse 2]
Bb6     Eb              F
And you read your Emily Dickinson
    Eb   Bb     F
And I my Robert Frost
       Eb       Bb         F
And we note our place with bookmarkers
     Bb                 Bb6  Bbmaj7  Bb6
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
        Eb       Bb    F
And the dangling conversation
        Bb   F      Eb
And the superficial sighs
                       Bb    Bb6  Bbmaj7  Bb6
Are the borders of our lives
 
[Verse 3]
Bb6     Eb       Bb          F
Yes, we speak of things that matter
     Eb         Bb      F
With words that must be said
       Eb Bb     F
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
        Bb             Bb6   Bbmaj7  Bb6
"Is the theater really dead?"
            Gm
And how the room is softly faded
      Am
And I only kiss your shadow
  G
I cannot feel your hand
         F
You're a stranger now unto me
            Eb       Bb    F
Lost in the dangling conversation
        Bb          Eb
And the superficial sighs
                      Bb    Bb6  Bbmaj7  Bb
In the borders of our lives
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