Slipping Away

[Verse 1]
Needles hum in the alley's breath
Another boy takes a step toward death
A girl in a dress
Tattered and thin
Eyes glazed over
She's lost within
The streetlights flicker
Shadows tall
And the night—it swallows them all

[Chorus]
Oh
They're slipping
Slipping away
Like the tide that won't stay
The hollow song of a youth undone
Fades to silence
One by one
Slipping
Slipping away

[Verse 2]
Empty bottles in the playground dirt
A legacy of unspoken hurt
The trees bear witness
Their roots run deep
To promises the earth can't keep
They chase the high
They chase the sky
But find no stars
Only goodbye

[Chorus]
Oh
They're slipping
Slipping away
Like the tide that won't stay
The hollow song of a youth undone
Fades to silence
One by one
Slipping
Slipping away

[Bridge]
What do you tell the mothers who weep
For children who dreamt
Then fell asleep?
What do you say when the nights grow cold
And the young don't live to grow old?

[Chorus]
Oh
They're slipping
Slipping away
Like the tide that won't stay
The hollow song of a youth undone
Fades to silence
One by one
Slipping
Slipping away