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Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a narrative, philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including Indian literature.
In the 20th century, philosophical treatments of dialogue emerged from thinkers including Mikhail Bakhtin, Paulo Freire, Martin Buber, and David Bohm. Although diverging in many details, these thinkers have articulated a holistic concept of dialogue as a multi-dimensional, dynamic and context-dependent process of creating meaning. Educators such as Freire and Ramón Flecha have also developed a body of theory and technique for using egalitarian dialogue as a pedagogical tool.
The term dialogue stems from the Greek διάλογος (dialogos, conversation); its roots are διά (dia: through) and λόγος (logos: speech, reason). The first extant author who uses the term is Plato, in whose works it is closely associated with the art of dialectic. Latin took over the word as dialogus.
Act I
Is it all over
Have we finally crossed the line?
I still want to hold you
But there's not a chance to even try
Last words were so cold an mean
What you said to me
Turned me into darkness
Now I'm waiting all alone
I need to know
Where are you?
I can't wait to see you again
My mind in a storm of uncertainty
I must have been a fool
What a fool
Too much pride to swallow
In the name of a lie we part our ways
With a woeful cry I call your name
In this hatred our hearts will burn and die
I'll never
I'll never forgive or cry
Why?
In our conviction we are
Held hostage by our mind
I lack the strength to break away
Or to try another day
I feel like we are caught in a web
We have been hanging for eternity
No way out without going down
We'll go down
Act II
All the fighting
All the lies
All the words
All the crimes
Days go by
I need to see
Where is the line
Where is my peace
In my mind
In my soul
You left me crying
I'm all alone
Act III
Fading
Are you fading away from my life?
Yearing
Longing for you words
I'm not ready for goodbyes
Waiting
Waiting for you to come
Returning
I am waiting for the day