I've been lost in way-back-when, in clothes I'll never wear again Pony-tails and paper planes and climbing up the tall trees Thinking back to hide-and-seek, everyday seemed like a week Sunday school and cigarettes and kissing at the movies And it's hard cause I really thought that time was moving slowly But I found out it was only Slippin' away
One day I found myself with you, saw all my girlhood dreams come true Still, there're other dreams and nothing lasts forever I put braids into my hair, but you don't seem to see them there And in your mind, I think, you're off to California And it's hard cause I really thought that I was in your vision Starry eyes, I see that you've been Slippin' away
We are water, we are the sand the wind blows on Before we're here, we are gone gone, gone
So it turns in simple ways, now the weeks go by like days Where's that little girl? She's gone and so forgotten And it's strange cause I truly thought that change was nowhere near me And all the time I was really Slippin' away