You walk through the door from a race you can't win
Just to get up in the morning and do it again
Now the kids they are crying for a piece of your time
And the love has grown colder
It just feels like your life is sliding away, sliding away

Well it used to be easier to put on that smile
But you were young then filled with ambition and pride
But now the youngest needs braces and the bills got you down
And the hole just gets deeper
And it feels like the light is sliding away, sliding away

Now it's 10 in the evening and you turn out the light
You take a deep breath and tell yourself you're alright, yeah you're alright
But you can't shake the feeling that you; re running out of time
Yeah the days of your youth
And those wild summer nights are sliding away, sliding away

Sometime you wish that there just was a way
You could make some damn sense of it all
Someone, somehow, somewhere would show you a sign

Until one day you wake up and you see the light
It all falls into place when you look in your children's eyes
And the girl who stuck by you through the thick and the thin
Let their love protect you
And most of all keep you from sliding away, sliding away
Sliding away, sliding away