RUBY                      © 2005 Ross/Math Lab

i can't eat and i can't sleep
i can't stop looking for another one
i can't read and i can't write
i can't get a single thing done

when i look back at my own past
i see all the things i used to know
it's all the same, it's all in vain
it's hard to live in your own shadow

i did it once, can't do it again
try to find another way
looking so far ahead i can't see today

   ruby, you just slipped away from me
   it's not accidental, now i know
   ruby, you've slipped almost out of reach
   and i have tried to let you go
   but i'm slipping

i tried so hard to make you feel
but nothing i create is real
stuck in my head, it's all unsaid
so i take the same old lousy deal

thought i knew you deep inside
but there's a part that you still hide
took a guess, i took a stab
cut to the chase and cough up my pride

now i can't write and i can't sing
i can't play my instrument
nothing works
and nothing hurts as much as what you really meant

   ruby, you just slipped away from me
   it's not accidental, now i know
   ruby, you've slipped almost out of reach
   and i have tried to let you go
   but i'm slipping

can't get no satisfaction
can't get no decent traction
can't get no new distraction
just feeling slipping action