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
