Tom: C5

              C5                A5
Slip sliding away, slip sliding away
              C5                G5          F5               G5      C5
You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away
                   A5                    C5
Whoah and I know a man, he came from my hometown
             F5                            F5
He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown
         C5                 A5
He said Dolores, I live in fear
             C5              G5            F5         G5         C5
My love for you's so overpowering, I'm afraid that I will disappear

(Chorus)
         A5                    C5
I know a woman, (who) became a wife
              F5                      F5
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
           C5                     A5
She said a good day ain't got no rain
           C5                    G5
She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed
      F5                   G5           C5
And I think of things that might have been

(Chorus)
             A5               C5
And I know a father who had a son
             F5                                F5
He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he'd done
          C5                  A5
He came a long way just to explain
              C5             G5
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
        F5                    G5            C5
Then he turned around and he headed home again

(Chorus)
               A5                   C5
Whoah God only knows, God makes his plan
         F5                           F5
The information's unavailable to the mortal man
           C5                        A5
We're workin' our jobs, collect our pay
              C5                G5                F5           G5            C5
Believe we're gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away

(Chorus repeats 2x)