Dangling Conversation

This is a video of the song The Dangling Conversation by Simon and Garfunkel.

[alysonquinn]

My mother died on Sunday. This was her favorite song by S&G. She was in college when it came out. She had all their albums. I remember listening to it with her as a child. I listen to it now with tears streaming. She was a beautiful soul who became an English teacher. Parkinson's is a cruel disease.

[MrMarkstyles]

There is true brilliance and beauty in this song, and several of the songs on this album. This album was recorded before the friction between the two men. They still made good songs. But the first couple of albums have semblance to how a child perceives the world, It is pure and not colored by later emotions, stress, distrust, jadedness etc.. Like the Beatles, if you watch their early videos, they are happy and bouncing. The later albums, while they may be far more brilliant.. Their eyes don't twinkle. It's true for our own lives, as we age, and accumulate experiences, good and bad, they change us.

Music recordings are great historical snapshots of the the time, the artist, and even how society views the music, the artists, the state of our lives. I have many favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs. Perhaps this and The Boxer come to mind first

[eddriver]

when I listen to this song it leaves me spent .
I picture my self in that room reciting those lines and looking for the door ... I am over powered by this song as I have always been when hearing it . I can only hear it once in a year
ahhhh the power of self righteous youth

[debdessaso]

What a commentary on our post-modern culture! We swallowed the "All is meaningless" philosophies and find ourselves regurgitating not only dangling conversations but dangling, inconsistent, absurd lives. Thank God there is a God in whom we can live, move, and have our being!

[BELINDASPIRIT]

I cannot believe at the age of 55 I am only now hearing this beautiful prose!!!!

[arthurharris]

First concert I went to as a 15 year old was Simon and Garfunkel at The Royal Albert Hall in 1968. Happy times.

[NASAHUB]

I dedicate this song to my brother-in-law, Robert James Frost, who passed away on April 11, 2016. We miss you Bob!

[pennysnowball]

Love this. It was played by my English teacher and the first time I realised I understood far more by listening than later, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, it explained wasn't stupid, I just saw things and heard things differently and it's a gift.

[kirstenlogan]

It's a still life watercolor
Of a now-late afternoon
As the sun shines through the curtain 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 book markers
That measure what we've lost
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm
Couplets out of rhyme
In syncopated time (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


♥️

[robertkauffman]

If more beautiful lyrics have been written, I have yet to hear them.

[jasonhuegan]

The most literate song ever written. Did anyone notice that the line "in syncopated time" is sung in syncopated time?

[patrickryan]

Only Simon and Garfunkel could deliver a song such as this, with such brilliance. 2/2018

[trestonhodgkins]

I love listening to Paul simon and all the folk story tellers

[RDIIproductions]

This song just popped in my head...going thru a divorce...They've Always been a Favourite group o mine...tho most of their stuff came out before I was born...Amazing songs...saw a tribute band here in Florida...was Awesome

[santiago_pablo]

When i was 18, I was really knocked out for this song and all the album, with flowers never bend as other influencer in my life !!!!

[ryan]

Paul Simon's lyrics and music over his career are better than almost anything that has ever been written in pop music, and equal to the rest.

[dbt]

What a masterpiece, both the music and the lyrics.

[babygirlbkah]

I always feel like I'm in a beach home, with the waves washing the shores, sea glass & sea shells, glistening in the sun.

[no-oneman.]

Paul Simon rightly receives recognition as a great songwriter, he was more than that. This song has more depth and intelligence than anything written these days.

[disambiguator]

I remember Peggy Fleming used Dangling Conversation as the theme for her skating routine on a televised ice competition. It was the perfect example of poetry in motion! As for the song, a critique on how many of us are preoccupied with matters superficial and unimportant in grand scheme of things. By the way, the link that you posted, which is supposed to give an explanation to the lyrics, is either broken or the BLOG is no more, apparently lost in the dangling conversation and superficial sighs in the border of our lives...