Slip-Sliding Away

You know the nearer the destination

The more you're slip-sliding away

And I know a man

He came from my home town

He wore this bad shirt for his woman

Like a thorny crown

He said "Dolores I live in fear"

"My love for you is so overpowering

I'm afraid that I will disappear"

He's slip-sliding away slip-sliding away

You know the nearer the destination

The more you're slip-sliding away

And I know a woman became a wife

These are the very words she

Uses to describe her life

She says "A good day ain't got not rain"

She said "A bad day is when I lie

In bed and think of things that might've been"

She's slip-sliding away slip-sliding away

You know the nearer the destination

The more you're slip-sliding away

You're slip-sliding away slip-sliding away

You know the nearer the destination

The more you're slip-sliding away

And I know a father who had a son

He longed to tell him all the reasons

For the things he'd done

He came a long way just to explain

He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping

And he turned around and headed home again

He's slip-sliding slip-sliding away

You know the nearer the destination

The more you're slip-sliding away

Slip-sliding away slip-sliding away

You know the nearer the destination

The more you're slip-sliding away