Lyrics

Slip Away (album: Time and Time and Time)

Blades of invasive weeds on their knees,
Joy trained out of a puppy’s eyes,
Hopeless love poured into another old friend,
And the tamarack we tried to save has died.

This summer’s been so lonely,
Why am I too busy for my friends to ask?
Did I not invest my hours, my soul?
Sad thoughts I need to mask.

Slip away

And what do I surrender–
To not be busy is to choose.
Summer’s forever’s now a blink of time;
It’s always something else to lose.

Slip away

How do you ever know yourself?
What’s truth? What’s just an echo?
Repeating the superstitions of youth,
Like a cleansing breath I can’t let go.

Slip away

So it’s back
To the Promised Land,
It’s back to the green light
Flashing across the sound—

back to business,
back to veiled opinions,
back to gentle questions,
and cautious bravery.

Slip away

And I lean into you–
I don’t deserve to–
Yet I still need you, I still need you, I still need you
I still need you, too.

Slip away