the song that won't get out of my head today

i think we've all had moments when life seems insignificant and relationships, shallow. i'm trying really hard not to be a niebuhr follower, but there are some things he writes that i can't deny. mainly, that there's something lacking in everything we see. like the painful realization that what we need is just out of reach. so every song i hear now is being filtered through what i've been reading, and this morning when i heard this song, i couldn't stop listening to it. it has this hopeful sadness to it...

the dangling conversation by simon & garfunkel

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.