The dangling conversation-Joan Baez

[ti:The dangling conversation] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:THE Best of the Vanguard Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]The dangling conversation - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:00.02]Written by：Unknown [00:00.04] [00:08.08]It's a still life water color [00:09.68] [00:11.70]Of a now late afternoon [00:13.38] [00:15.52]As the sun shines through the curtained lace [00:17.89] [00:19.55]And shadows wash the room [00:21.31] [00:24.36]And we sit and drink our coffee [00:26.93] [00:29.69]Couched in our indifference [00:31.62] [00:32.13]Like shells upon the shore [00:33.78] [00:34.58]You can hear the ocean roar [00:36.28] [00:39.55]In the dangling conversation [00:41.58] [00:43.38]And the superficial sighs [00:45.38] [00:47.14]The borders of our alliance [00:51.78] [01:02.12]And you read your Emily Dickinson [01:04.44] [01:06.02]And I my Robert frost [01:07.95] [01:09.68]And we note our place with book markers [01:12.46] [01:13.57]That measure what we've lost [01:15.35] [01:18.41]Like a poem poorly written [01:20.59] [01:23.26]We are verses out of rhythm [01:25.53] [01:26.19]Couplets out of rhyme [01:27.71] [01:28.29]In syncopated time [01:30.28] [01:32.93]And the dangled conversation [01:35.21] [01:37.13]And the superficial sighs [01:39.21] [01:40.73]Are the borders of our alliance [01:45.29] [01:46.73]Yes we speak of things that matter [01:48.95] [01:50.62]With words that must be said [01:52.60] [01:54.52]Can analysis be worthwhile [01:57.31] [01:58.27]Is the theater really dead [02:00.39] [02:03.27]And how the room is softly faded [02:05.83] [02:08.24]And I only kiss your shadow [02:10.39] [02:10.95]I cannot feel your hand [02:13.04]You're a stranger now unto me [02:15.78] [02:17.86]Lost in the dangling conversation [02:20.70] [02:22.11]And the superficial sighs [02:24.49] [02:25.73]In the borders of our alliance