Simon & Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversation

The Dangling Conversation <--點擊聽歌

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.

Simon & Garfunkel 的歌都很有意思的
The Dangling Conversation 是一首關於「溝通」的歌
是關於一對 戀人/夫婦 因為失敗的溝通而使二人的心日漸疏遠
是一首很悲哀卻又很真實的歌
Conversation 不等於 Communication
好好想一下，平日我們是在跟他人進行對話的多還是溝通的多

有時候我在朋友圈子中會有一種很莫名的孤單感
當聽到這首歌時就明白為什麼會有這樣的感覺了
因為我跟「朋友」都只是在進行一些有的沒的  Dangling Conversation 而沒有真正的 Communication
吵吵鬧鬧的，很高興
但回過神來，感覺很孤單
所以我在第一次聽到這首歌時就被感動了