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“The Dangling Conversation” is a song written by Paul Simon, first released in September 1966 as a Simon and Garfunkel single “The Dangling Conversation”/“The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine”. The song only climbed to 25 on the US charts and never made it onto the UK charts. Simon was surprised that it was not a bigger hit and attributed the song’s lack of success to its heaviness. It was released a month later as a recording on the Simon and Garfunkel album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

The theme is failed communication between lovers. The song starts in a room washed by shadows from the sun slanting through the lace curtains and ends with the room “softly faded.” They are as different as the poets they read: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost.

Simon has compared this song to “The Sound of Silence”, but says “The Dangling Conversation” is more personal.

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September 3, 1966
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