Slip Away-Laurie Anderson

[ti:Slip Away] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:Life On A String] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slip Away - Laurie Anderson [00:25.64]What's this a little dust in my eye [00:30.11] [00:37.72]Well I'm not the type to cry [00:39.09] [00:46.45]It's four AM I'm standing by the bed where you lie [00:51.64] [00:52.97]Sleeping the sleep of the newborn [00:55.99] [00:59.54]Put my finger to your lips warm air [01:04.39] [01:14.87]Five AM you lift your hand and open it [01:19.77] [01:23.06]Then you slipped away you slipped away [01:28.68] [01:32.14]Oh death that creep that crooked jerk [01:34.21] [01:36.38]He comes he comes walking he comes sneaking [01:40.13]Down that long irreversible hallway [01:43.66] [01:45.41]Grabs you in your sleep [01:46.99] [02:00.55]I walk outside to the parking lot [02:03.48] [02:04.98]Bright coins of water on the sidewalk [02:07.68] [02:09.39]Big white building where your body lies [02:12.37] [02:13.54]Stands in the middle of the fields icy air [02:18.54] [02:20.56]And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks [02:27.11] [02:29.11]And ooo we slip away we slip away [02:36.06] [02:50.58]I'm thinking about the way that lost things always come back [02:55.52] [02:57.33]Looking like something else [02:58.62] [03:01.38]A fishing pole a shoe an old shirt a lucky day [03:06.49] [03:08.72]Ooo then they slip away into the remains of the day [03:15.06] [03:16.98]Ooo they slip away they slip away [03:21.91] [03:34.45]I'm thinking how you taught me how to win [03:36.83] [03:37.44]And how to loose [03:39.21] [03:40.18]And how to fight the crippling blues that I was born with [03:44.94]Bad dreams and nightmares [03:48.37] [03:49.93]Ooo they slip away ooo they slip away into the remains of the day [04:00.85] [04:17.80]I know that sometime I'll stop looking for you [04:20.99] [04:21.79]Stop seeing your face every day [04:24.69] [04:26.75]Bad dreams and nightmares and big bad wolves [04:30.71]Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day [04:37.85] [04:39.72]Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day [04:46.59] [04:48.22]They slip away [04:49.07] [04:54.87]You told me you had no idea how to die but I saw [05:03.21]The way the light left your eyes [05:06.58] [05:07.82]And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks [05:15.24] [05:16.96]And ooo then you slipped away you slipped away