Drifting Away Lyrics

I'm slowly drifting away, drifting away Wave after wave, wave after wave

I'm slowly drifting, drifting away And it feels like I'm drowning

Pulling against the stream, pulling against the

Moving bar to bar, I'm avoiding my knees

I'm too far from God, bad example to my niece

My brother tried to warn me, avoid this path

You saw what happened to our deadbeat dad

But the drink's so alluring, the bites a deterrent

Something that blocks this real world, that's a burning

AA's for quitters and that's not me

Don't you go and tell me I have a disease

It's under control, I just had a bit much

Had a fight with my girl, so today was kind of rough

It's happening more and more, bartender give a pour

Now I'm out a job and I'm onto the streets

My future has changed from bright to bleak

A man froze out here this time last week

I sleep on a bench, never saw this coming I couldn't stop this water from running

I'm slowly drifting, drifting away Wave after wave, wave after wave

I'm slowly drifting, drifting away And it feels like I'm drowning

Pulling against the stream, pulling against the

I'm happily married, got two kids and a wife

You know the kind, picket fence kind of life

My daughter's so smart and athletic to boot

My son, he's outdoorsy, I just taught him to shoot

But I've got a secret that I'm never gonna tell

I hop on computers, they've got me under spell

Chicks twisting and turning, got my lust here I'm yearning

My wife, once enough, is a pawn in my burning

The fantasies I hatched, they really just don't match

One night I get a call from a flirty worker

She's lonely now and quite the looker

One thing to another and now she's a mother

The vows that I said they are now all dead

Wife wondering what's wrong, she sees it in my eyes

It took me by surprise, my marriage in demise

I'm slowly drifting, drifting away

Wave after wave, wave after wave

I'm slowly drifting, drifting away

And it feels like I'm drowning

Pulling against the stream Pulling against the

Our ships toss and turn in this thing called life

The pain hurts so bad and it feels like a knife was stabbed in your back

The train's off the tracks and you've lost your way in all this pressure day to day

Hard to do good, but please don't tire

When your feet get to touching too close to the fire

The pleasure won't last, the devil is a liar

It's not just some cliche that we say today

From beginning of time this fella been around

Like a lion, a roaring as he goes from town to town

He wants to devour

Look so sweet instead of sour He's operating by little slips every hour

No one really knows what had happened Your ship went astray, it's mayday captain

Who's running your life, that's my question today

Please don't get caught just a drifting away

I'm slowly drifting, drifting away Wave after wave, wave after wave

I'm slowly drifting, drifting away And it feels like I'm drowning

Pulling against the stream Pulling against the stream