C5                 B5     D5
            It's a still life water color
            C5             B5    D5
            Of a now late afternoon
                   C5          B5           A5
            As the sun shines through the curtain lace
                G5                     E5  F#5
            And shadows wash the room
            E5
            And we sit and drink our coffee
            F5                              E5
            Cast in our indifference, like shells upon the shore
                    D5
            You can hear the ocean roar
                       C5        B5     D5               G5    D5      C5
            In the dangling conversation, and the superficial sighs
                                G5   E5  F#5
            The borders of our lives

            C5                 B5     D5
            And you read your Emily Dickenson
            C5        B5      D5
            And I my Robert Frost
                   C5        B5          A5
            And we note our place with bookmarkers
                 G5                       E5  F#5
            That measure what we've lost
            E5
            Like a poem porely written
                   F5                     E5
            We are verses out of rhythm , Couplets out of rhyme
               D5
            In syncopated time
                    C5        B5     D5               G5    D5      C5
            And the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs
                                   G5     E5  F#5
                Are the borders of our lives

            C5               B5           D5
            Yes we speak of things that matter
                 C5          B5       D5
            With words that must be said
               C5     B5      A5
            Can analysis be worthwhile
                   G5
            Is the theatre really dead
            E5
            And how the room is softly faded
                  F5                        E5
            And I only kiss your shadow, I cannot feel your hand
                     D5
            You're a stranger now unto me
                        C5        B5     D5               G5    D5      C5
            Lost in the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs
                                  G5     E5   F#5
                In the borders of our lives