| Slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away
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| You know the nearer the destination the more you’re slip-sliding away
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| And I know a man, he came from my home town
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| He wore this bad shirt for his woman like a thorny crown
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| He said, «Dolores, I live in fear»
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| «My love for you is so overpowering I’m afraid that I will disappear»
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| He’s slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away
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| You know the nearer the destination the more you’re slip-sliding away
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| And I know a woman, became a wife
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| These are the very words she uses to describe her life
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| She says, «A good day ain’t got not rain»
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| She said, «A bad day is when I lie in bed and think of things that might’ve
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| been»
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| She’s slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away
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| You know the nearer the destination the more you’re slip-sliding away
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| You’re slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away
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| You know the nearer the destination the more you’re slip-sliding away
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| Mmhmmm
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| And I know a father who had a son
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| He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he’d done
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| He came a long way just to explain
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| He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping and he turned around and headed home again
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| He’s slip-sliding, slip-sliding away
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| You know the nearer the destination the more you’re slip-sliding away
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| Slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away
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| You know the nearer the destination the more you’re slip-sliding away |