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