Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Slip Away , by - Laurie Anderson. Song from the album Life on a String, in the genre Release date: 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. |