Slip away in darkness when you feel your time to go

Slip away before you say what I don't want to know

Slip away into the night while I hold it all inside

Don't let tomorrow show you that I cried

You go on believin' I don't know you're so untrue

When you lie to justify your seein' someone new

Still you know it's heartless to be cheatin' me this way

An' pride won't let me swallow one more day

I can hear her callin' you

You know what you have to do

I won't beg you to stay

Just leave me here to understand

How we held love within our hands

Then let it slip away

Slip away... it's over... nothin' seems the same no more

An' my eyes don't recognize the need I've seen before

Take no satisfaction cause you're leavin' here tonight

With nothin' left to hold you by my side

You don't have to see me through

Go to her... she waits for you

I won't stand in your way

Just leave me here to understand

How we held love within our hands

Then let it slip away...