Goo Goo Dolls - Slide Lyrics Meaning

Slide is about a young couple who get an abortion. The girl is scared and holding back from her boyfriend who is telling her it'll be okay. "Don't you love the life you killed; the priest is on the phone; your father hit the wall; your ma disowned you." Her parents obviously don't agree with her decision. "I guess I'll never know what it means to be a man, it's something I can't change, I'll live around it." Be a man, as in become a father. Since the baby is no longer there, he's saying he'll live anyway. He's supporting the girl, begging her to open up to him but she keeps running away, "Do you wake up on your own, and wonder where you are"/at the end "Yeah, slide between the sheets of all the beds you never knew." He's reaching out to her, asking if she wants to get married or runaway together. He just wants to be with her but she keeps pulling away. "Slide" simply means let the situation go and move forward.