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Simon And Garfunkel Dangling Conversation Guitar Tab

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From uunet!cbmvax!macon Tue Aug  4 14:41:43 PDT 1992
Article: 1342 of alt.guitar.tab
Path: nevada.edu!uunet!cbmvax!macon
From: macon@gallifry.Berkeley.EDU (Glen Macon)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: music : THE DANGLING CONVERSATION
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Date: 4 Aug 92 13:22:59 GMT
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Title: THE DANGLING CONVERSATION (Simon & Garfunkle)

C B D
It's a still life water color
C B D
Of a now late afternoon
C B Am
As the sun shines through the curtain lace
G E F#
And shadows wash the room
Em
And we sit and drink our coffee
F E
Cast in our indifference, like shells upon the shore
D
You can hear the ocean roar
C B D G D C
In the dangling conversation, and the superficial sighs
G Em F#
The borders of our lives

C B D
And you read your Emily Dickenson
C B D
And I my Robert Frost
C B Am
And we note our place with bookmarkers
G E F#
That measure what we've lost
Em
Like a poem porely written
F E
We are verses out of rhythm, Couplets out of rhyme
D
In syncopated time
C B D G D C
And the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs
G Em F#
Are the borders of our lives

C B D
Yes we speak of things that matter
C B D
With words that must be said
C B Am
Can analysis be worthwhile
G
Is the theatre really dead
Em
And how the room is softly faded
F E
And I only kiss your shadow, I cannot feel your hand
D
You're a stranger now unto me
C B D G D C
Lost in the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs
G Em F#
In the borders of our lives

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
 
 
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Ryan Sutherland
Rhythm Player
#1 by Ryan Sutherland at Apr 21, 1971 at 7:47 AM EST
such beautiful, beautiful lyrics. about two people in a relationship who are mutually inquisitive and intelligent, and thought themselves to be a perfect match. individually they havent changed, but they have lost touch with each other, grown apart, forgotten to feel in their quest for thought. they try to fill the emptiness where there love used to flourish with the "big questions", but both realize that it isnt working. i think "borders of our lives" refers to the fact that we are only human and can only do and understand so much in our time here on earth; that we need to make the most of the now and embrace those we love we lose them. also could refer to the walls we build up between ourselves and other people.
 
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Dustin
Wanna Be
#2 by Dustin Cogburn at Aug 21, 1971 at 11:18 AM EST
When I hear this song, I always imagine the characters being sort of like Frazier Crane and Lilith from the TV show...I guess because it all seems so over-intellectual and high culture. Especially the questions in the last verse about "analysis" and "the theatre." Of course, in the TV show Frazier and Lilith did end up breaking up so I guess this is one form of art imitating another or something.
 
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Mike
Average
#3 by Mike Fraguglia at Jul 12, 1974 at 10:28 AM EST
I love this song. Love. It just seems to fit certain things in my life.
 
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Francesco
Lead Player
#4 by Francesco DeVito at Apr 18, 1979 at 7:11 PM EST
And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we've lost. Such amazing lyrics in this song, and that's my favorite line. Paul SImon is brilliant. I agree with what's been said. Just the conceprt of a Dangling Conversation... go ahead and grasp that one.
 
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camilo
Average
#5 by camilo velasquez at Jul 18, 1979 at 3:39 PM EST
The slow disintegration of a relationship... but neither knows how to step up and say anything, but both know it's happening. Each seems to be too deeply withdrawn into his and her own worlds to reach out to the other.
 
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Jaime
Average
#6 by Jaime at Mar 23, 1983 at 3:56 AM EST
That measure what we've lost. I think this means with each new line that they read, they discover a new way of thinking about things. What they have lost is their old ideas about life and it simplicity/complexity.
 
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Kazza
Average
#7 by Kazza at Nov 7, 1993 at 4:53 PM EST
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by TS Eliot.
 
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Austin
Rhythm Player
#8 by Austin at Jan 27, 2003 at 8:02 AM EST
'The borders of our lives' to me, represents 'small talk'. Skimming the surface, never going into extreme detail discussing the issue of the obviously fizzling relationship.