Slide's Getting Shorter

Lyrics: Ethan Tasch Music: Ethan Tasch Six hour-long drives were half of my life, Now they don't take time like they used to, I'm worried the years that used to take years, Won't always appear to the old rules, Try to look at my past and all I can grasp, Are some pictures that I don't know who took, But I don't wanna go backwards, 'Cause I know everything else will still move, If most of my life I forget, How much of it really happened, When I make it to the wrong end, Will I know how long it lasted? 'Cause the more time, I have on one side, It feels like the slide, Shortens as I ride it, Or maybe I'm just flyin', But I don't like it, Whenever I sleep, the hours just leave, But they don't wake me to say goodbye, Whatever's behind usually finds, Its way out my mind when it feels like it, And it's dark in there but it doesn't need an exit sign, Still, I don't wanna go backwards, 'Cause I know it could take just as much time, If most of my life I forget, How much of it really happened, When I make it to the wrong end, Will I know how long it lasted? 'Cause the more time, I have on one side, It feels like the slide, Shortens as I ride it, Or maybe I'm just flyin', But I don't like it, Take your time and get behind it, Or you might feel yourself slidin', Used to like it, I was five then, Now I'm hidin' in the tunnel, And I won't move a muscle, Either something's out of order, Or the slide's getting shorter.