Slip Away-Laurie Anderson

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[ar:Laurie Anderson]
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[00:00.00]Slip Away - Laurie Anderson
[00:25.64]What's this a little dust in my eye
[00:37.72]Well I'm not the type to cry
[00:46.45]It's four AM I'm standing by the bed where you lie
[00:52.97]Sleeping the sleep of the newborn
[00:59.54]Put my finger to your lips warm air
[01:14.87]Five AM you lift your hand and open it
[01:23.06]Then you slipped away you slipped away
[01:32.14]Oh death that creep that crooked jerk
[01:36.38]He comes he comes walking he comes sneaking
[01:40.13]Down that long irreversible hallway
[01:45.41]Grabs you in your sleep
[02:00.55]I walk outside to the parking lot
[02:04.98]Bright coins of water on the sidewalk
[02:09.39]Big white building where your body lies
[02:13.54]Stands in the middle of the fields icy air
[02:20.56]And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks
[02:29.11]And ooo we slip away we slip away
[02:50.58]I'm thinking about the way that lost things always come back
[02:57.33]Looking like something else
[03:01.38]A fishing pole a shoe an old shirt a lucky day
[03:08.72]Ooo then they slip away into the remains of the day
[03:16.98]Ooo they slip away they slip away
[03:34.45]I'm thinking how you taught me how to win
[03:37.44]And how to loose
[03:40.18]And how to fight the crippling blues that I was born with
[03:44.94]Bad dreams and nightmares
[03:49.93]Ooo they slip away ooo they slip away into the remains of the day
[04:17.80]I know that sometime I'll stop looking for you
[04:21.79]Stop seeing your face every day
[04:26.75]Bad dreams and nightmares and big bad wolves
[04:30.71]Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day
[04:39.72]Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day
[04:48.22]They slip away
[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
[05:07.82]And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks
[05:16.96]And ooo then you slipped away you slipped away