Sliping Through My Fingers

[00:00.83] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:09.62] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:15.99] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

[00:25.56] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:29.54] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:38.06] And without really entering her world

[00:45.29] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:50.92] That funny little girl

[00:54.45] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:58.47] I try to capture every minute

[01:03.52] The feeling in it

[01:05.65] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:08.84] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[01:12.30] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:17.09] She keeps on growing

[01:19.75] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:25.59] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:33.29] Barely awake, I let precious time go by

[01:41.26] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:48.77] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:53.83] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[02:01.53] The places I had planned for us to go?

[02:06.88] (Slipping through my fingers all the time)

[02:09.59] Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

[02:14.38] And why? I just don't know

[02:18.62] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:22.35] I try to capture every minute

[02:27.67] The feeling in it

[02:30.06] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:33.25] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[02:36.46] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:41.76] She keeps on growing

[02:43.89] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:47.13] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:54.58] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[02:59.63] Slipping through my fingers

[03:28.35] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[03:34.20] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[03:41.38] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile