What's this? little dust in my eye
 Well I'm not the type to cry
 It's four a.m. I'm standing by the bed where you lie
 Sleeping the sleep of the newborn
 I put [my] finger to your lips. Warm air.
 Five a.m. You lift your hand and open it.
 Then you slipped away. You slipped away.
 Oh death, that creep, that crooked jerk...
 [bad word]  [bad word] walking. [bad word] sneaking
 Down that long irreversible hallway
 Grabs you in your sleep

 I walk outside to the parking lot.
 Bright coins of water on the sidewalk.
 Big white building where your body lies
 Stands in the middle of the fields. Icy air.
 And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks
 And ooo we slip away. We slip away.

 I'm thinking about the way that lost things [bad word] back
 Looking like something else
 fishing pole, a shoe, an old shirt, a lucky day
 Ooo then they slip away into the remains of the day
 Ooo they slip away. They slip away.
I'm thinking how you taught me how to win
 And how to loose
 And how to fight the crippling blues that I was born with
 Bad dreams and nightmares
 Ooo they slip away. Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day.

 I know that sometime I'll stop looking for you.
 Stop seeing your face every day
 Bad dreams and nightmares and big bad wolves
 Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day
 Ooo they slip away into the remains of the day
 They slip away

 You told me you had no idea how to die but I saw
 The way the light left your eyes
 And after all the shocks the way the heart unlocks
 And ooo then you slipped away. You slipped away.