Slipping Through My Fingers

[00:03.16] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early mornin'

[00:10.20] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:19.00] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

[00:26.55] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:32.41] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:39.47] And without really entering her world

[00:46.51] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:51.63] That funny little girl

[00:56.41] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:59.27] I try to capture every minute

[01:04.53] The feeling in it

[01:06.54] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:10.31] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[01:13.31] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:18.58] She keeps on growing

[01:20.59] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:26.86] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:33.73] Barely awake, I let precious time go by

[01:42.53] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:49.82] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:56.12] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[02:02.92] The places I had planned for us to go?

[02:09.94] Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

[02:15.31] But why? I just don't know

[02:19.83] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:22.85] I try to capture every minute

[02:27.86] The feeling in it

[02:30.42] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:33.93] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[02:36.84] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:41.86] She keeps on growing

[02:44.13] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:49.90] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:57.20] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[03:01.57] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[03:05.84] ~~~

[03:21.65] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early mornin'

[03:28.70] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile