Slip slidin’ away
I don’t think Paul Simon and I would agree about marriage, but he’s got the description of widowhood down pat.
I know a woman/ became a wife/ These are the very words she uses to describe her life/ She said a good day/ ain’t got no rain/ She said a bad day’s when I lay in bed/ And think of things that might have been
Slip slidin’ away/Slipt sliding’ away/ You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip sliding’ away