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Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Delores
I live in fear
My love for you's so overpowering
I'm afraid that I will disappear
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
I know a woman
Became a wife
These are the very words she uses
To describe her life
She said a good day
Ain't got no rain
She said a bad day's when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
And I know a father
Who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons
For the things he'd done
He came a long way
Just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again
He's slip slidin'
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away
Mmm
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I think he is trying to say that even though we always want to do something, eventually we shy away from whatever we want most. We will never be satisfied and we will never be completed. Somewhat depressing, but still a great insight into our nature.
nillad1000on April 28, 2004Link
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To me, the song is saying that people tend to spend all of their time and energy working towards something that isn't all it's cracked up to be. It tells us to be careful what we devote our lives to--make sure it's what we really want.
edguidryon December 30, 2006Link
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many points people have made make sense.
To me, the song says that we know nothing about why we do things.
We are told, get a job, get your pay, get married.
But even when we do these things, and we are successful, we are sliding closer to the real end.
A wife thinks she must toil for her household and for her children.
A father thinks he must teach his son what he knows.
And God, that thing, the most overpowering of all these pretences, God is the only one who is sure of itself. The rest of us, we fear, we know deep down where things are really going.
A father kisses his son only to "go back home again" to his "true role" as provider and teacher.
wives and husbands must justify their choice of who to marry and their careers, to their friends, their kids, but most of all, to themselves.
We are still no closer to the real 'why?'s of life.
truckymacuckyon October 25, 2008Link
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i live in fear-- my love for you's so overpowering, i'm afraid that i may disappear
amazing. paul simon is a great songwriter
luckye225on September 27, 2004Link
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wow. takes on a totally different meaning when you actually listen/read the lyrics. the underlying music portrays a reflective, jimmy buffetish type summer dreamstate (if that makes any sense atall) while the words tell amazing stories..several amazing stories.
breathefreshair04on December 30, 2004Link
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I think that the song is trying to give a sense that you need to enjoy the feelings in life, the people that pass through it; mostly because of the last few lines where he talks about how working a job and making money, and in general focusing on the material and the 'proper', makes us think we're sailing along when we're really sliding away from what life's really about.
thelesserthreaton July 10, 2006Link
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this song is about living in the now. the more you near your destination, the more your slip slidin' away from what lifes all about. life is about the path, not the destination. paul tells us to stop focusing on the future and enjoy today. its only a sad song in the sense that these people don't live in the now.
natedodsonon May 08, 2010Link
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Well i added this song, i think its really nice, the lyrics are brilliant he is an amazing poet!
angel2kisson July 30, 2002Link
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this song is so beautiful for its depressing meaning i mean he is basically saying that the closer u get to something the farther u end up and u cant change your life cause it is pre determined
chunkymonkey102on April 14, 2004Link
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powerfully beautifull yet depressing yet true,ever since i heard this song it has stayed with me.
forsakenangel25on July 22, 2005Link
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