slip-sliding away

slip-sliding away, 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, mmhmmm, 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