(Mogg/Moore) 


All the world knows 

Yet none know well 

To shun the heaven

That lead men to this hell


If all the stars 

Disappear and die

And I am looking at an empty sky

Oh I'll be damned 

Back behind the sun

This kind of love 

Can't be bought or won.


And when every second counts

When the minutes 

turn a night into a day

Because the closer you get

The further you slip away

Because the closer you get

The further love slip on away


When the summer rain came

Well it kissed our feet

And a magic moon lay down on our street

Oh love and death 

It's like war and peace

One single outreach 

On this empty beach

Cos you're damned if you do 

And you're damned if you don't 

Want her to stay oh hey, hey

Because the closer you get

The further you slip away

Cos the closer you get

The further love slip on away,

Slipped away

Ooh na na na na na na, na na na na na na

Slipping away, slipping away


These plastic bags and these crushed up cans

This twisted wreck on some foreign land

Better hold close what you hold so dear

Cos the vanishing point is coming oh so near

All this world knows 

Yet none know well 

To shun this heaven

That lead men to this hell

The closer you get

The further you slip away

I said now, the closer you get

The further love slips away, slips away, slips away

The closer you get, the further you slip on away

Cos the closer you get, the further love slips onaway,

Slipping away