The dangling conversation

Tom: C
 
            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