Am always glad to receive positive comments from my lovely fans 🤍🖤 it's absolutely my pleasure bringing sweet melody to you. May God bless you awesomely 🙏 I hope you have fun listening to this music 🎧❣️. Have you been to any of my concert?
Part of the reason i listen to older music as a Gen Z is because of the sweet comments of older generations sharing their memories and meaningful stories that connect to these songs ❤
That's fabulous, friend - you have excellent taste...as a GenX I grew up with Paul's music - as a musician myself, he's remained one of my greatest influences...his work is the best of the best - good luck to you ❤
@@robertcronin6603 thank you! My parents are gen x and listen to his music (that's how I found it lol.) I also was a big elvis fan a few years ago, as well as the Beatles, Billy Joel, and much more because of my parents ♥ these days I'm more into classical, which my parents definitely don't listen to lol
No one can write lyrics like Paul Simon. This one is right up there with, "Sonny sits by the window and thinks to himself, how it's strange that some rooms are like cages..."
Paul Simon is the greatest singer-songwriter that has ever lived AND we will never see another of higher quality. He was born a master and is a living legend. Music doesn't get any better than this and that's a fact. The way musical energy flows through and out of Paul is extremely powerful... much like our SUN. Extremely rare.....
This song means so much more to me now then it ever has. Living life for 61 years the ups and downs, love gained and lost, the pain, the pleasure. Amazing how life will change you, and your perspective, if you live long enough.
@@johnblair3267 The little things truly matter the most, and it hurts when you realize what you lost (whether your own undoing of happiness or not) extremely hurts.
My Dad, a conservative preacher, listened to top 40 to know what society was singing about. He loved this song--said that it really spoke a timeless truth. Miss you, Dad.
It's November 1977. I'm in the car with my step dad Mike. We're driving north on Eisenhower Blvd just south of Hillsborough Ave in Tampa. I'm 7 and this song comes on the radio and it makes me think of toy boats bouncing in the bathtub. It felt comfortable. Mike mutters at the windshield "dont like it."... as the chariot on the building to my right drifted by my window, I thought "he likes the Beach Boys tho."
Best of times those you shared Best times show that you cared Best of times enjoy they are rare Best of times behind you prepare For Best of times is a rocking chair
I sang this song when I was a kid, when I didn't even know the meaning of the words, when my dad was nowhere to be found & my single mom struggled to raise me & my 2 sisters... I've been fortunate to have wonderful, strong women who raised me, my grandmother as well, but no father figure. Hug your kids, guys, & be the best dad you can be, that's more powerful than you could possibly know & more valuable than all diamonds. My best to everyone ❤️✌️
The Oak Ridge Boys met Paul Simon at an awards show when they had just switched from gospel and were trying make it in country country music. Duane Allen asked Paul if he could write a song for them, it would jump-start their career. Paul said, I'm kind of stingy. If I write something that I think is good, I'll probably want to keep it for myself. But I'll keep you in mind. Then, months later they got a call to see if they could come to New York and record a song with him for his Greatest Hits album. Later, he sent them a gold record. Joe Bonsall, who died earlier this year, wrote the story up on his website. They performed the song together live exactly once. It was 11 years later at a gospel awards show. By then, the Oak Ridge Boys had gold records of their own. That performance is posted on RUclips.
Mr. Simon has quite a few lines like that. He does the same thing to me. Jeff Buckley's original "Hallelujah" (oh, hell; most any version of "Hallelujah") just turns on the faucets. Actually, the faucets just leak, but they still have to be cleaned up.
My father left my mom when I was 3. He left the state when I was 6. Saw him once when I was 9, lived with him for a year when I was 12, and he sent me back to my mom because his new wife didn't want me there. He's slip sliding away as I sit here and type this. I was asked if I was going to see him... simple answer. No. My own son is grown and has never wondered where I was or whether I loved him. I'm still married to his mother... and if I wasn't, I would never choose another woman over my own son.
My parents divorced when I was 13. My father did his best to stay in our lives. He would sometimes stop after work in the summer mornings when my mom went to work. He would come up to my room and wake me up. I miss those days. He was in his 40s. He was still young and I was about 15. We would talk about things. Then he would leave before my mom came home for lunch.
@@dandylionsloth446 idk what age gate depression means (wtf, hope ur being cheeky) but I think what Caz meant was that they didn’t get it until they were older. In any case, Paul was in mid 30s when this came out.. and I was a babe so yeah
I might go with the word experienced instead of older. I got this song in my 20's. Other might later but I'm willing to bet there are those younger than that that feel this song in their soul.
John Prine was great! I would have to give Springsteen a nod as well. Lyrics that stop you dead in your tracks and reflect on past relationships with people, places and things!
Meaning as a 10 yr old and now 55...wow this song is money! Still sounds good today. Thanks for the memories!! "A woman who became a wife"...days long gone.
Paul Simon has this incredible ability to write songs that are catchy and fun while also being extremely sad and hopeless. he introduces bits of hope into the song only to beat them down a few lines later. Great writer.
Charles Reid: I agree. The lyrics are so incredibly poignant and meaningful. They seem hopeless but in a strange way, I find comfort in them. I feel like I’m not alone. If there’s one lesson I’ve learned in life it’s that nothing lasts. And that’s ok. Now if only I could learn to stop trying to cling, it would be even better 😆
Wanna make this song really sad; The boy in the 3rd verse is dead, the father is attending his funeral. (It fits with the lyrics as metaphors and it is sad AF 😭)
Time is slipping away, it may seem as though time creeps by but it isn't is passing in a blur. I tell the youth to take life as borrowed time, I am in my 60's now and wish I could have done more, seen more, lived more. Use your resources to enjoy everything you can as quickly as you can, don't waste time it will end before you least expect it to
Doesn’t matter what you do, how you hope to expedite, be ahead of the game, amaze your followers, wins friends and influence people, this too shall slip. Then slide away.
Thanks for the great love and support you show me as a special fan of mine, I hope you won't stop listening to music, and thanks for your sincere Compliment and love towards my music❤️❤️may god bless you.
If you ever need a boost in spirit Paul, just read these comments. Such love vibrating your way! I'm such a big fan of your work, thank you for what you have done for this world.
This song came out in 1975 , I was a senior in high school .I am now 61 and we are all slip sliding away. we are all mortal and are here for a very brief moment in this life. let us all come together as one people one Earth.
Graduated in '75. The song had something I didn't know. Liked it, it was calming. Had no clue. Now, "The nearer my destination the more I'm slip sliding away." I am on the Path now. Slightly, but in the right direction. Peace to Earth!
"A good day ain't got no rain, she said a bad day's when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been". That line kills me every time I hear it.
I feel this song means; we're sometimes pompous, full of ourselves for what we feel are righteous reasons; only to find out like a schoolyard kid.., how unbelievably fucking wrong we've been. , all along! ALL of us!
Some People are Gifted Musicians, Some People are Gifted Singers, Some People are Gifted Song Writers, Some People are Gifted Poets. Then There are those Few, like Paul Simon, Who can put ALL those Gifts together. That's Genius.
I loved this song long before I knew it's meaning. 40 years find me truly "living" the song. Life's short. Bitter or sweet.. We choose. Tell someone you love them, no regrets at the end.
"I know a father who had a son..He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he done.. He came a long way just to explain.. Kissed his boy as he lay sleeping then turned around and headed home again" my dad did that very thing after him my mom split up. Didnt see him for a year and then he came to see me while i was sleeping one night. Miss you pops R.I.P. Jeff Scott Sr. Jan 20th 1965 - Nov 15th 2012. 🤘✌❤
JULY 8TH 2024 I am slip sliding away...I have one foot on Earth the other in heaven...lived a good decent life...God YAHWEH has tremendously blessed me in my old age..I am slip sliding away .....
Excellent! Ken Boa at Reflections Ministries teaches this principle. I’m paraphrasing here: we are amphibious creatures with one foot on earth and the other in heaven (eternity). Our eyes are on the Eternal. I, too, am “slip sliding away”. 🙏❤️🐈
@squatchburger1580 Thank you. All my 13 Family members have left before me...I am excited to reunite with them and more excited to stand in the presence of my Creator YAHWEH and HIS son JESUS CHRIST. I had no children or husband to wish me good bye. Also, all my friends have left. So I thank you for thinking of me. BLESSINGS.
Im 46 years old now and your right I guess it takes a little age under your belt to understand this song. I wish I didn't waste so many good years crying about the things I didn't have I should of just enjoyed every minute of the ride because before you know we all just slip slid away beautiful song
That third verse gets me everytime wen i was 9 my dad just got out of doing 4 years jail it was late wen i woke up to hear mum yelling at someone didn't know who it was as the other person was saying nothing i pretended to sleep wen i heard a males voice say can i at least see him then my bedroom door opened and someone put thier hand on my forehead and said i love you son i heard him walk out my door close a car start i walked out to mum in the frond yard to see a set of tail lights driving off up the street it would be another 9 years before i seen him again 😢 but i still love you dad
Yes indeed, we are all slip sliden away!... WHICH WAY..✝️ the only way! Thanks for your FAITH, Mr Paul Simon..& this powerful, 🕰️Less 🎶SONG🎵 SHALOM..⏳..🌎..🙌....🧘....🙌
From the Fall of 1977. Brimming with futility and inevitability, this song’s message relates to the quick passage of Time-and in many cases peoples’ failure to use the gifts God gave them to do some good now. Not later because later isn’t guaranteed. Only accountability is.
Ever since _The Sound of Silence,_ Paul Simon has been writing songs which are as meaningful as they are tuneful, and _Slip-Slidin' Away_ is no exception. For a lifetime of amazing music ... thank you, Paul.
This gem from 1977 reached No. 5 in the charts, one of the very few to succeed without being introduced first in an album, nor included later in a studio one, but only in a compilation. The song is a trilogy - man, woman, father who all “slip slide away” and a fourth verse which can be considered an overview, or critic by the one who knows it all. The song has a “bluesy” cadence, which fits very well with the story line. The lyrics have inspired numerous debates and writings
I wasn’t there, but I imagine all those singer-songwriters of the time sitting around a campfire getting stoned and serenading their friends with their guitars and their voices. Weaving stories about life in a philosophical way as you do when you’re stoned. And everyone grouping up back then as they left home and hitchhiking to adventure, looking for meaning beyond.
A great song with powerful storytelling. "God only knows God makes His plans, the information's unavailable to the mortal man"; man that's a profound lyric. Classic song by a great song writer. Peace out.
Thank you to everyone in the comments that made feel much better about how really good this song is I heard it today at the gas station for a second to look up the lyrics and stuck on loop🌌🗻
I'm 26. I have no business with the folk that know this music best. All I know is that folk were my parents. I know this well. In my household and in my greatest of times this music rang true. It rings true now more than ever.
My dad exposed it to my sister and I since I have a memory and I'm now 40 and my kids are 23 years old 21 years old and 2yo and they ALL know this good real music, actually my 23 year old son only listens to stuff from wayyy before he was born and up to like 2005 he hates almost ALL new music , I always tell him to give new things a chance but he's an old soul lol
Paul Simon is one of the finest Singer/Song Writers/Musicians ever to hit the US. Don't worry Brother Paul..... Your Song's won't end up in a Car Tune Junk Yard. Be nice to hear your heart & soul with some new perspectives. God Bless: I know He Does. 🎶🎵🎸🪘🎹🙏
This song has helped me through several rough times. The first time I heard it was right after my uncle died in a motorcycle collision. I've love Simon and garfunkel several years now. Their music has changed my life
My Daddy passed away 25 hours ago. My heart hurts, and this helps. We used to listen to all Paul Simon thru the years. I had a cat named "Bones" inspired by Hearts & Bones. My Daddy taught me to love good music. 💔
There's a podcast/show on netflix called the midnight gospel. Very trippy animation which might not be your thing. He interviews his mother in the last episode of the first season. She has bone cancer and was dying when he interviewed her. She's since passed, but one thing she said always stuck out to me. She says that she loves him and even though she would be gone soon, that love wasnt going anywhere. Sorry to hear about your loss. I hope you continue to cry as long as you need to. I hope you continue to turn to music and art in general. I hope your father is somewhere else right now, crying to Paul Simon alongside you.
Just wanted to throw out there that the millennium generarion also appreciates great music when they hear it 😉. God bless my mother for introducing me to the oldies (but goodies) before she slippp slid awayyyy
I’m a last-day of the last-week of the last-year to be a “boomer “ my mom had “had” a 45 record collection to die for. However, six of her kids, including me, had a frisbee war with them. Sorry mom. Youth is definitely wasted on the young. But thank you for introducing me to the beautiful land of music.
My son (who's 28 as of 2021), also introduces his pop's to new music. It's a beautiful cycle that *_needs_* to start in infancy. My parents turned *ME* on to excellent music as well... Back in '86, *MY* pops, on the other hand... made fun of the Megadeth song I was listening to while I was blasting 'em while in the shower... one of the funniest friggin' moments I have of him (and I have many)... This is the cycle we def need to repeat -- inspire the generations younger than us! My condolences for your loss.
@@Phil_Trujeque Thank you very much for your kind words. Isn’t it great how music can bring strangers together to share their joy of the good thing they’ve found
Thanks for the great love and support you show me as a special fan of mine, I hope you won't stop listening to music, and thanks for your sincere Compliment and love towards my music❤️❤️may god bless you.
I can't remember how young I was, I only remember how sad it made me. At age 60 I reflect on the sadness then as futuristic events in my life the unforeseen, unknown now experienced, and glad about it! Loving life!!!
Such a beautiful song. I lost the love of my life to cancer, I miss her always, I'll love my Brenda Gail Always! "Slip sliding away in what's left of my time, laying my body next to my Lady
Yes I am listening
I'm slip sliding away. I will be a faded memory one day. God Paul knows.
Am always glad to receive positive comments from my lovely fans 🤍🖤 it's absolutely my pleasure bringing sweet melody to you. May God bless you awesomely 🙏
I hope you have fun listening to this music 🎧❣️. Have you been to any of my concert?
Believe we're gliding down the highway when in fact we're slip sliding away... DAMN, brilliant.
Part of the reason i listen to older music as a Gen Z is because of the sweet comments of older generations sharing their memories and meaningful stories that connect to these songs ❤
You smart for13 keep that wisdom it will bring you piece. Just have to live right
@@builtbyrecoverytexas thank you very much 🩷
That's fabulous, friend - you have excellent taste...as a GenX I grew up with Paul's music - as a musician myself, he's remained one of my greatest influences...his work is the best of the best - good luck to you ❤
@@robertcronin6603 thank you! My parents are gen x and listen to his music (that's how I found it lol.) I also was a big elvis fan a few years ago, as well as the Beatles, Billy Joel, and much more because of my parents ♥ these days I'm more into classical, which my parents definitely don't listen to lol
I have great faith in you. ❤😊
He wore his passion for his woman like a thorny crown. What a lyric!!!!!
The phrase "The Dolores Syndrome" has become a part of my culture as a result of this verse.
JESUS wore HIS for you & me....
No one can write lyrics like Paul Simon. This one is right up there with, "Sonny sits by the window and thinks to himself, how it's strange that some rooms are like cages..."
Believe we're gliding down the highway when in fact we're slip sliding away -
Paul Simon is the greatest singer-songwriter that has ever lived AND we will never see another of higher quality. He was born a master and is a living legend. Music doesn't get any better than this and that's a fact. The way musical energy flows through and out of Paul is extremely powerful... much like our SUN. Extremely rare.....
The longer God gives you the more you understand mistakes, failures but also the blessings!
That's gospel truth.
For sure go grab it with both hands worlds your oyster with lots of beautiful people
I know
When You believe in Imaginary Sky Despots, You're most definitely Slip Slidin' Away!
"God only knows, God makes his plan, the information's unavailable to the mortal man"
Amen. How beautiful & true.
God Bless & Love to all, 143❤
God Bless you too! Have a wondderful weekend!
Such is life, love, and death.
This song means so much more to me now then it ever has. Living life for 61 years the ups and downs, love gained and lost, the pain, the pleasure. Amazing how life will change you, and your perspective, if you live long enough.
And if one pays attention to the little things, they matter.
@@johnblair3267 The little things truly matter the most, and it hurts when you realize what you lost (whether your own undoing of happiness or not) extremely hurts.
I'm 62 and I feel like a good day ain't got no rain and a bad days when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been.
@@tammybrown1104 mee
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My Dad, a conservative preacher, listened to top 40 to know what society was singing about. He loved this song--said that it really spoke a timeless truth. Miss you, Dad.
It's 1978, 4 AM on a Friday night, and I have this playing softly on my stereo after everyone is asleep.
It's 2024, 8 PM on a Friday night, and I'm here alone in the condo still able to sing this word-for-word since I was ten.
4 a.m. is not Friday night.
@@MyBelch always someone like you to reply with crap on good comments...smh
It's November 1977. I'm in the car with my step dad Mike. We're driving north on Eisenhower Blvd just south of Hillsborough Ave in Tampa. I'm 7 and this song comes on the radio and it makes me think of toy boats bouncing in the bathtub. It felt comfortable. Mike mutters at the windshield "dont like it."... as the chariot on the building to my right drifted by my window, I thought "he likes the Beach Boys tho."
@@MyBelch hush mimsy
“The nearer your destination, you know the more you’re slip sliding away.” So true. Love this song.
Pretty heavy huh? and so true without being morbid. Love this tune
Thank you Paul!
Best of times those you shared
Best times show that you cared
Best of times enjoy they are rare
Best of times behind you prepare
For Best of times is a rocking chair
Great writer. I mean come on! “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls”. One of America’s greatest lyricists.
If they don't play this at my funeral I'm not going 😂❤
Love this😂
😂❤
Great line
If they don't play don't cry for me at my funeral I am going to haunt somebody
God only knows, God makes his plan
The information's unavailable to the mortal man -Such an incredible lyric
..... OMG ..... FOR SURE!
jim pinkey agreed it is amazing ... I long to be able to write like Paul
@@fluffyclouden actually that line is in the bible...
I always thought it was " available " - hmm 😑
@@waykoolcreations5413 ITS DEFINITELY UNAVAILABLE
I sang this song when I was a kid, when I didn't even know the meaning of the words, when my dad was nowhere to be found & my single mom struggled to raise me & my 2 sisters... I've been fortunate to have wonderful, strong women who raised me, my grandmother as well, but no father figure.
Hug your kids, guys, & be the best dad you can be, that's more powerful than you could possibly know & more valuable than all diamonds.
My best to everyone ❤️✌️
Both my parents has dementia - I just travel along3🎭this song tells all❤🎼❤➿
I've got 5 kids man and this is the true goal in life
Almost the exact same here ! God bless !
"So your mother chose a "bad" man to have children with or she drove a "good" man away? " Stefan Molyneux
Mom raised 4 of us by herself in the 50 and 60s
Life has more sadness than hapiness, more grief than joy and yet we carry on for the precious few moments which make life worthwhile.
It’s all perception. U could see more happiness than sadness. It’s up to you.
@@evanabt8578 That may be true but there are some things in life that are also objectively sad.
Simon was 34 when he recorded this. I disagree with the people that say it gets better as you get older. I think you get better.
Some of us..glad to meet you !
All these years I never knew that was the Oak Ridge Boys backing him on this song. Wow!
The Oak Ridge Boys met Paul Simon at an awards show when they had just switched from gospel and were trying make it in country country music. Duane Allen asked Paul if he could write a song for them, it would jump-start their career. Paul said, I'm kind of stingy. If I write something that I think is good, I'll probably want to keep it for myself. But I'll keep you in mind. Then, months later they got a call to see if they could come to New York and record a song with him for his Greatest Hits album. Later, he sent them a gold record. Joe Bonsall, who died earlier this year, wrote the story up on his website. They performed the song together live exactly once. It was 11 years later at a gospel awards show. By then, the Oak Ridge Boys had gold records of their own. That performance is posted on RUclips.
Thinking about life can be tiring.
He kissed his Boy as he lay sleeping, then he turned around and headed home again...makes me start crying and I can't hold in the tears...so powerful.
Mr. Simon has quite a few lines like that. He does the same thing to me. Jeff Buckley's original "Hallelujah" (oh, hell; most any version of "Hallelujah") just turns on the faucets. Actually, the faucets just leak, but they still have to be cleaned up.
Ditto
My father left my mom when I was 3. He left the state when I was 6. Saw him once when I was 9, lived with him for a year when I was 12, and he sent me back to my mom because his new wife didn't want me there. He's slip sliding away as I sit here and type this. I was asked if I was going to see him... simple answer. No.
My own son is grown and has never wondered where I was or whether I loved him. I'm still married to his mother... and if I wasn't, I would never choose another woman over my own son.
Yes for sure
My parents divorced when I was 13. My father did his best to stay in our lives. He would sometimes stop after work in the summer mornings when my mom went to work. He would come up to my room and wake me up. I miss those days. He was in his 40s. He was still young and I was about 15. We would talk about things. Then he would leave before my mom came home for lunch.
The older I get the more I appreciate this song.
Amen ❣️
I just cannot understand why we dont have this quality of music anymore...thanks to them legends
...says every generation. 🥱
@@quinnculver
but this isnt from my generation.
@@paulmarren7970 Interesting. I guess I made a mistake. I'll think about it.
Thank you Paul🥰
You never truly understand this song until you are older. It’s an absolute masterpiece ❤️
Stop trying to age gate depression, I"m 42 and understood this song when I was a teen.
Agreed... i made fun of paul simon until i came out of rehab.
@@dandylionsloth446 idk what age gate depression means (wtf, hope ur being cheeky) but I think what Caz meant was that they didn’t get it until they were older. In any case, Paul was in mid 30s when this came out.. and I was a babe so yeah
I might go with the word experienced instead of older. I got this song in my 20's. Other might later but I'm willing to bet there are those younger than that that feel this song in their soul.
And if you got a son, it hits home even more
If you ever need to calm your soul just listen to a Paul Simon masterpiece. We sure need this in the year 2023. God bless
Paul Simon is the best singer/songwriter that ever lived. Change my mind.
I probably won't change your mind, but I can propose another to that lofty category, that they may share the title: Freddie Mercury.
John Prine. Paul is great, but John is the best. Bob Dylan agrees with me, calling songs like Sam Stone "Pure Proustian Existentialism."
Carol King.
John Prine was great! I would have to give Springsteen a nod as well. Lyrics that stop you dead in your tracks and reflect on past relationships with people, places and things!
John Mayer... pretty awesome from my generation
Hard to find a song that just makes you want to feel more alive. The melody is 10/10 and Simon's voice is heaven.
Meaning as a 10 yr old and now 55...wow this song is money!
Still sounds good today. Thanks for the memories!!
"A woman who became a wife"...days long gone.
Paul Simon has this incredible ability to write songs that are catchy and fun while also being extremely sad and hopeless. he introduces bits of hope into the song only to beat them down a few lines later. Great writer.
Charles Reid: I agree. The lyrics are so incredibly poignant and meaningful. They seem hopeless but in a strange way, I find comfort in them. I feel like I’m not alone. If there’s one lesson I’ve learned in life it’s that nothing lasts. And that’s ok. Now if only I could learn to stop trying to cling, it would be even better 😆
His songs make sense to me. Musical genius.
Wanna make this song really sad; The boy in the 3rd verse is dead, the father is attending his funeral. (It fits with the lyrics as metaphors and it is sad AF 😭)
@@artinnevadayou're right I find inspiration in this song God only knows and God makes his plan. Everything will be fine in the end.
You Sure GOT THAT RIGHT !!!!!
Time is slipping away, it may seem as though time creeps by but it isn't is passing in a blur. I tell the youth to take life as borrowed time, I am in my 60's now and wish I could have done more, seen more, lived more. Use your resources to enjoy everything you can as quickly as you can, don't waste time it will end before you least expect it to
Perhaps it is not too late just yet.
Doesn’t matter what you do, how you hope to expedite, be ahead of the game, amaze your followers, wins friends and influence people, this too shall slip. Then slide away.
Yep hou get one time around. Live love laugh. Brighten peoples day, be the love you want to see. ❤
@@dennismanary5537 Beautiful thought!
His voice is a true instrument. Sounds angelic.
Word :)
The phenomenal ability to talk a song
Thanks for the great love and support you show me as a special fan of mine, I hope you won't stop listening to music, and thanks for your sincere
Compliment and love towards my music❤️❤️may god bless you.
Smooth as butter
@@jeffallen6754
How long have you been listening to my music??
This man is a genius for his poetry & songs which are phenomenal. May God bless you Paul!!!
R.I.P. to my dear friend Joe Bonsall of The Oak Ridge Boys who is providing the harmony on this song. Love you brother 💔
I ❤this song, like love it. This kind of love: ❤️😘😍🥰💕♥️💖💞
If you ever need a boost in spirit Paul, just read these comments. Such love vibrating your way! I'm such a big fan of your work, thank you for what you have done for this world.
This song came out in 1975 , I was a senior in high school .I am now 61 and we are all slip sliding away. we are all mortal and are here for a very brief moment in this life. let us all come together as one people one Earth.
Graduated in '75. The song had something I didn't know. Liked it, it was calming. Had no clue. Now, "The nearer my destination the more I'm slip sliding away." I am on the Path now. Slightly, but in the right direction. Peace to Earth!
Class of 75
Could you even imagine if we could put aside our pettiness and just come to that realization. Well put.
Gay
I was born in '76. Still sliding...
My favorite! Heartrending. So glad he discussed it on Colbert.
"A good day ain't got no rain, she said a bad day's when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been".
That line kills me every time I hear it.
me too
❤❤❤❤
Me too, was married to a sociopath... who still has my family thinking I'm the bad guy for divorcing him.
Hindsight is always 20/20.....
Me 3 what it be what it be.
One of the most astute and influential among songwriters, musicians, and artists that there ever was. The breath of Paul Simon's work is astonishing.
"We think we're gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away." Brings tears to my eyes.
The first recorded music I ever bought was the 45 of this. Bought it for my brother in 1977.
Paul Simon is a poet of middle age. This song always makes me sad.
One of the most beautiful and powerful songs ever written
I feel this song means; we're sometimes pompous, full of ourselves for what we feel are righteous reasons; only to find out like a schoolyard kid.., how
unbelievably fucking wrong we've been. , all along! ALL of us!
Some People are Gifted Musicians, Some People are Gifted Singers, Some People are Gifted Song Writers, Some People are Gifted Poets. Then There are those Few, like Paul Simon, Who can put ALL those Gifts together. That's Genius.
I'm a gifted listener!! 😊
I loved this song long before I knew it's meaning. 40 years find me truly "living" the song. Life's short. Bitter or sweet.. We choose.
Tell someone you love them, no regrets at the end.
Yea then you don't wonder or waist time thinking about it.yes no maybe so
True
You also missed the meaning of this song.
Yes!!
So true!
Great thoughts!
@@user-pe9gz8si8k : What’s the meaning?
This was one of those songs I shared with my dad. Love you dad and miss you.
Means more to me now than when it was released 50 yrs ago. It hasbeen good to have Paul Simon around.
Paul Simon 🌹❤️
A truly great song means something different to each person who listens.
Why does this song make me feel something that no other song does? It's frickin amazing
Books tell you what.
Poetry tells you why.
Because Paul Simon. That’s the only explanation.
"I know a father who had a son..He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he done.. He came a long way just to explain.. Kissed his boy as he lay sleeping then turned around and headed home again" my dad did that very thing after him my mom split up. Didnt see him for a year and then he came to see me while i was sleeping one night. Miss you pops R.I.P. Jeff Scott Sr. Jan 20th 1965 - Nov 15th 2012. 🤘✌❤
@jeffery Scott good song to rmbr..promice brother peace out
Whoa, dude, that's heavy stuff!
That lyric makes me cry every time. The song is so deceptively bouncy, but the lyrics are achingly sad.
RIP to your Pops
Such a dark, sad song both musically and lyrically. Yet it also fills me with a little bit hope. To be better.
yup, that's the sign of a great song.
Same!
Don't forget the thorney crown and Deloris!.
Great song writer
JULY 8TH 2024
I am slip sliding away...I have one foot on Earth the other in heaven...lived a good decent life...God YAHWEH has tremendously blessed me in my old age..I am slip sliding away .....
Excellent! Ken Boa at Reflections Ministries teaches this principle. I’m paraphrasing here: we are amphibious creatures with one foot on earth and the other in heaven (eternity). Our eyes are on the Eternal. I, too, am “slip sliding away”. 🙏❤️🐈
Travel peacefully friend
Don't slip slide away just yet. Stay a while.
0:38 ❤🙏 0:44
@squatchburger1580 Thank you. All my 13 Family members have left before me...I am excited to reunite with them and more excited to stand in the presence of my Creator YAHWEH and HIS son JESUS CHRIST. I had no children or husband to wish me good bye. Also, all my friends have left. So I thank you for thinking of me.
BLESSINGS.
The production is amazing. Not ever overpowering the vocals just complementing
Powerful and truthful lyrics. Beautiful melody. Love this song.
Im 46 years old now and your right I guess it takes a little age under your belt to understand this song. I wish I didn't waste so many good years crying about the things I didn't have I should of just enjoyed every minute of the ride because before you know we all just slip slid away beautiful song
Now that was music!
Still is, my friend. It still is.
That third verse gets me everytime wen i was 9 my dad just got out of doing 4 years jail it was late wen i woke up to hear mum yelling at someone didn't know who it was as the other person was saying nothing i pretended to sleep wen i heard a males voice say can i at least see him then my bedroom door opened and someone put thier hand on my forehead and said i love you son i heard him walk out my door close a car start i walked out to mum in the frond yard to see a set of tail lights driving off up the street it would be another 9 years before i seen him again 😢 but i still love you dad
Melody, lyric, refrain, rhythm , message. That’s Paul's genius. That’s all.
What a kick ass song
Yes indeed, we are all slip sliden away!... WHICH WAY..✝️ the only way! Thanks for your FAITH, Mr Paul Simon..& this powerful, 🕰️Less 🎶SONG🎵 SHALOM..⏳..🌎..🙌....🧘....🙌
Slip sliding away till I'm with my daddy again . My best friend my wonderwall my hero ❤️
From the Fall of 1977. Brimming with futility and inevitability, this song’s message relates to the quick passage of Time-and in many cases peoples’ failure to use the gifts God gave them to do some good now. Not later because later isn’t guaranteed. Only accountability is.
Ever since _The Sound of Silence,_ Paul Simon has been writing songs which are as meaningful as they are tuneful, and _Slip-Slidin' Away_ is no exception.
For a lifetime of amazing music ... thank you, Paul.
That was the comment ever
“ I am a rock “ 1965
Absolutely masterful lyrics, he embodies the human condition throughout, thanks Paul.
This gem from 1977 reached No. 5 in the charts, one of the very few to succeed without being introduced first in an album, nor included later in a studio one, but only in a compilation. The song is a trilogy - man, woman, father who all “slip slide away” and a fourth verse which can be considered an overview, or critic by the one who knows it all.
The song has a “bluesy” cadence, which fits very well with the story line.
The lyrics have inspired numerous debates and writings
I love the beginning of this song well the whole song but the beginning always grabbed me
What a poet and song writer. Love to hear songs by singers like Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond. The lyrics are like poetry. 70's music is the best.
Nothing is more facts than that!
I wasn’t there, but I imagine all those singer-songwriters of the time sitting around a campfire getting stoned and serenading their friends with their guitars and their voices. Weaving stories about life in a philosophical way as you do when you’re stoned. And everyone grouping up back then as they left home and hitchhiking to adventure, looking for meaning beyond.
A great song with powerful storytelling. "God only knows God makes His plans, the information's unavailable to the mortal man"; man that's a profound lyric. Classic song by a great song writer. Peace out.
This will always be the saddest song I ever heard and it makes me cry a little every time I hear it.
God only knows, God makes his plan. The informations unavailable to the mortal man. That's so deep and so true.
Thank you to everyone in the comments that made feel much better about how really good this song is I heard it today at the gas station for a second to look up the lyrics and stuck on loop🌌🗻
Omg - Though I've listened to the album version hundreds of times, I've never heard this early version. So beautiful.
I'm 26. I have no business with the folk that know this music best. All I know is that folk were my parents. I know this well. In my household and in my greatest of times this music rang true. It rings true now more than ever.
My dad exposed it to my sister and I since I have a memory and I'm now 40 and my kids are 23 years old 21 years old and 2yo and they ALL know this good real music, actually my 23 year old son only listens to stuff from wayyy before he was born and up to like 2005 he hates almost ALL new music , I always tell him to give new things a chance but he's an old soul lol
@@nikkimion8171 your son has taste and discernment. that never gets old!
Good music crosses generations
And I'm just laying here vaping and thinking about my immortal soul.... every damn second slip slides away like the thick clouds from my lips.....
If that folk were your parents sounds like you got some appreciating to give your grandparents too my friend!
In a vast desert of glib, “feel good” pop music, this song is a tiny oasis of hurtful honesty that makes us all feel less alone.
Paul Simon is one of the finest Singer/Song Writers/Musicians ever to hit the US.
Don't worry Brother Paul.....
Your Song's won't end up in a Car Tune Junk Yard. Be nice to hear your heart & soul with some new perspectives. God Bless: I know He Does. 🎶🎵🎸🪘🎹🙏
the end of this song is the most beautiful ever written
Once in a life a man like this comes along, and I am so glad not to have missed it.
Ages like fine wine
This song has helped me through several rough times. The first time I heard it was right after my uncle died in a motorcycle collision. I've love Simon and garfunkel several years now. Their music has changed my life
Makes you miss the 70’s.... time’s slip sliding away....
Genius gets tossed around....Paul is a genius....
Beautiful song. Jesus loves you. John3:16
The older I get the more this song and his voice connects with me inside. . . Thank-you for putting it up.
My Daddy passed away 25 hours ago. My heart hurts, and this helps. We used to listen to all Paul Simon thru the years. I had a cat named "Bones" inspired by Hearts & Bones. My Daddy taught me to love good music. 💔
You called him Daddy?
@@hasyour7257 LMAO
There's a podcast/show on netflix called the midnight gospel. Very trippy animation which might not be your thing. He interviews his mother in the last episode of the first season. She has bone cancer and was dying when he interviewed her. She's since passed, but one thing she said always stuck out to me. She says that she loves him and even though she would be gone soon, that love wasnt going anywhere.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I hope you continue to cry as long as you need to. I hope you continue to turn to music and art in general. I hope your father is somewhere else right now, crying to Paul Simon alongside you.
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss, hope your pops is fine up in heaven
Happy 79th birthday Mr. Simon and thank you for many years of great music.
Omg this is so beautiful. I miss music like this.
For me, this song showcases Paul's best recorded vocal performance. The Bass guitar on this song is noteworthy, also.
Whoever EQ'd his voice in this recording was spot on. His voice texture sounds awesome.
Lex Wahl the deep voice?
Just wanted to throw out there that the millennium generarion also appreciates great music when they hear it 😉. God bless my mother for introducing me to the oldies (but goodies) before she slippp slid awayyyy
Laura Smith; So amply stated. We're only here for so short a time. Condolences extended.
Thanks, Laura- nice to hear that we Boomers had decent taste in music. So sorry for your loss.
I’m a last-day of the last-week of the last-year to be a “boomer “ my mom had “had” a 45 record collection to die for. However, six of her kids, including me, had a frisbee war with them. Sorry mom. Youth is definitely wasted on the young. But thank you for introducing me to the beautiful land of music.
My son (who's 28 as of 2021), also introduces his pop's to new music.
It's a beautiful cycle that *_needs_* to start in infancy.
My parents turned *ME* on to excellent music as well...
Back in '86, *MY* pops, on the other hand... made fun of the Megadeth song I was listening to while I was blasting 'em while in the shower... one of the funniest friggin' moments I have of him (and I have many)...
This is the cycle we def need to repeat -- inspire the generations younger than us!
My condolences for your loss.
@@Phil_Trujeque Thank you very much for your kind words. Isn’t it great how music can bring strangers together to share their joy of the good thing they’ve found
You got to walk that lonesome hiway, you got to walk it by yourself…
… yes we are all just slip sliding away
What a masterpiece of mood and melody
a bad day is when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been... what incredible lyrics he has always had!
Thanks for the great love and support you show me as a special fan of mine, I hope you won't stop listening to music, and thanks for your sincere
Compliment and love towards my music❤️❤️may god bless you.
lived it.
been there done that
You didn't mention the first bit .....a woman who became a wife these's a the very words she describe her life ....a good day has no rain ....."
Speeches. This song is speechless.
I can't remember how young I was, I only remember how sad it made me. At age 60 I reflect on the sadness then as futuristic events in my life the unforeseen, unknown now experienced, and glad about it!
Loving life!!!
Genius songwriting..
Such a beautiful song.
I lost the love of my life to cancer,
I miss her always, I'll love my
Brenda Gail Always!
"Slip sliding away in what's left of my time, laying my body next to my Lady
One of Paul's more beautiful gifts to the world.
The electric piano in this is just absolutely sublime!