Simon & Garfunkel – Slip Slidin’ Away – 1968

Lyrics

 

Slip slidin’ awaySlip slidin’ awayYou know the nearer your destinationThe more you’re slip slidin’ away
I know a man, he came from my home townHe wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crownHe said “Delores, I live in fearMy love for you is so overpowering
I’m afraid that I will disappear”Slip slidin’ awaySlip slidin’ awayYou know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ awayI know a woman, became a wifeThese are the very words she uses to describe her lifeShe said “A good day ain’t got not rain”
She said “A bad day’s when I lie in bedAnd I think of things that might have been”Slip slidin’ awaySlip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destinationThe more you’re slip slidin’ awayAnd I know a father who had a sonHe longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he had done
He came a long way just to explainHe kissed his boy as he lay sleepingThen he turned around and he headed home againSlip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ awayYou know the nearer your destinationThe more you’re slip slidin’ awayGod only knows, God makes his plan
The information’s unavailable to the mortal manWe’re working our jobs, collect our payBelieve we’re gliding down the highwayWhen in fact we’re slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ awaySlip slidin’ awayYou know the nearer your destinationThe more you’re slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ awaySlip slidin’ awayYou know the nearer your destinationThe more you’re slip slidin’ away

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