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It's a still life water color
CGD
Of a now late afternoon
CGAm
As the sun shines through the curtain lace
GEm
And shadows wash the room
G
And we sit and drink our coffee
FE
Cast in our indifference, like shells upon the shore
D
You can hear the ocean roar
CGDGDC
In the dangling conversation, and the superficial sighs
GEm
The borders of our lives
CGD
And you read your Emily Dickenson
CGD
And I my Robert Frost
CGAm
And we note our place with bookmarkers
GEm
That measure what we've lost
G
Like a poem poorly written
FE
We are verses out of rhythm, Couplets out of rhyme
D
In syncopated time
CGDGDC
And the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs
GEm
Are the borders of our lives
CGD
Yes we speak of things that matter
CGD
With words that must be said
CGAm
Can analysis be worthwhile
GEm
Is the theater really dead?
G
And how the room is softly faded
FE
And I only kiss your shadow, I cannot feel your hand
D
You're a stranger now unto me
CGDGDC
Lost in the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs
GEm
In the borders of our lives
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