Have you ever listened to songs for years but never hear the words?

Question

The Dangling Conversation
P. Simon, 1966
What is your feeling/interpretation with these words?
It's a still life water color
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 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

Words from a song are a form of audible communication.

Answer 1

Yes, because you can't understand half the words in some of them.

Have you ever noticed that we have a tendency to let things like a song change our attitude?

This song, for example is about a couple that has lost the romance in their lives. The reason behind that is the writer's concern that they have separate interests, indicated by the reference to what they read. If he hadn't been concerened about their individual interests, he might have just naturally had his, while she had hers, and they had theirs.

Instead, he let it bother him to a point that they no longer even know each other, even though they have been lost in a "dangling conversation," or talking the whole time.

Can you imagine that?

If you read that wrong, you might look at it like he's saying that having individual interests should be avoided. Instead, he's chastising himself for worrying about it.

Why would it not be ok for one to read one thing, and the other read something else?

Regards,

Chris

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Yes and sometimes I miss here words in songs like the end of Queen's One vision at the end of the song where I think he singing fried chicken.

Answer 4

Yeah, sometimes lyrics are hard to understand, hey? It's funny when you discover you've been singing the wrong lyrics for years or when other people do. I like Paul Simon's lyrics. They are always interesting. :)

Answer 5

How sad this is.
You are beside me, you share my name, but we have become as strangers in our familiarity.
Where is the vibrancy & joy of our Youth?

Answer 6

Nope..to me lyrics make a song ..more than the music..

Answer 7

Michael jackson's smooth criminal

Answer 8

yeah