Slipping Through My Fingers (From 'Mamma Mia!' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

[00:01.14] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:08.65] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:16.09] I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness

[00:23.54] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:30.20] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:36.86] And without really entering her world

[00:43.50] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:51.45] That funny little girl

[00:53.31] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:56.50] I try to capture every minute

[01:01.56] The feeling in it

[01:03.66] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:06.87] Do I really see what's in her mind

[01:10.09] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:15.40] She keeps on growing

[01:17.27] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:21.52] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:26.56] Barely awake I let precious time go by

[01:38.52] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:45.69] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:52.32] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[01:58.96] The places I had planned for us to go

[02:05.88] Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't

[02:10.91] And why, I just don't know

[02:15.47] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:18.95] I try to capture every minute

[02:23.75] The feeling in it

[02:26.13] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:29.32] Do I really see what's in her mind

[02:32.25] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:37.58] She keeps on growing

[02:39.44] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:43.73] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:50.63] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[02:54.87] Slipping through my fingers...

[03:16.65] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[03:17.45] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[03:37.90] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[03:45.37] SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS