Slipping through my fingers

[00:00.65] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:08.37] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:16.08] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

[00:23.52] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:29.65] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:36.28] And without really entering her world

[00:43.20] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:48.78] That funny little girl

[00:52.80] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:56.29] I try to capture every minute

[01:00.82] The feeling in it

[01:02.94] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:06.12] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[01:09.59] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:14.66] She keeps on growing

[01:16.85] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:22.70] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:30.15] Barely awake, I let precious time go by

[01:38.17] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:45.10] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:51.77] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[01:58.69] The places I had planned for us to go?

[02:02.94] (Slipping through my fingers all the time)

[02:05.60] Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

[02:10.93] And why? I just don't know

[02:15.20] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:18.39] I try to capture every minute

[02:22.90] The feeling in it

[02:25.56] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:28.49] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[02:31.94] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:37.00] She keeps on growing

[02:39.39] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:43.40] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:50.04] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[02:54.56] Slipping through my fingers

[02:57.82] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[03:29.55] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[03:37.79] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile