
Date of issue: 19.08.2001
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Slip Away |
What’s this? |
A little dust in my eye |
Well I’m not the type to cry |
It’s four a.m. I’m standing by the bed where you lie |
Sleeping the sleep of the newborn |
I put finger to your lips. |
Warm air. |
Five a.m. You lift your hand and open it. |
Then you slipped away. |
You slipped away. |
Oh death, that creep, that crooked jerk… |
He comes, he comes walking. |
He comes sneaking |
Down that long irreversible hallway |
Grabs you in your sleep |
I walk outside to the parking lot. |
Bright coins of water on the sidewalk. |
Big white building where your body lies |
Stands in the middle of the fields. |
Icy air. |
And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks |
And ooo we slip away. |
We slip away. |
I’m thinking about the way that lost things always come back |
Looking like something else |
A fishing pole, a shoe, an old shirt, a lucky day |
Ooo then they slip away into the remains of the day |
Ooo they slip away. |
They slip away. |
I’m thinking how you taught me how to win |
And how to loose |
And how to fight the crippling blues that I was born with |
Bad dreams and nightmares |
Ooo they slip away. |
Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day. |
I know that sometime I’ll stop looking for you. |
Stop seeing your face every day |
Bad dreams and nightmares and big bad wolves |
Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day |
Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day |
They slip away |
You told me you had no idea how to die but I saw |
The way the light left your eyes |
And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks |
And ooo then you slipped away. |
You slipped away. |
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