Slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away Your know the nearer the destination The more you're slip-sliding away And I know a man He came from my hometown He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown He said Deloras, I live in fear My love for you so overpowering I'm afraid I will disappear He's slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away Your know the nearer the destination The more you're slip-sliding away And I know a woman who became a wife These are the very words She uses to describe her life She says a good day ain't got no rain She says her bad are when she lies in bed And thinks of things that might have been She's slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away Your know the nearer the destination The more you're slip-sliding away Slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away Your know the nearer the destination The more you're slip-sliding away And I know father and his son He longed to tell him the reasons For all 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 away, slip-sliding away Your know the nearer the destination The more you're slip-sliding away Slip-sliding away, slip-sliding away Your know the nearer the destination The more you're slip-sliding away