Slipping through my fingers

[00:00.53] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:06.91] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:13.55] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

[00:19.91] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:24.97] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:30.81] And without really entering her world

[00:36.65] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:40.91] That funny little girl

[00:44.89] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:47.28] I try to capture every minute

[00:51.79] The feeling in it

[00:53.13] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:56.31] Do I really see what's in her mind

[00:58.97] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:03.22] She keeps on growing

[01:05.08] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:10.39] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:16.23] Barely awake, I let precious time go by

[01:23.41] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:29.26] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:35.11] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[01:40.69] The places I had planned for us to go

[01:44.67] (Slipping through my fingers all the time)

[01:46.53] Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

[01:51.84] And why, I just don't know

[01:54.76] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:57.42] I try to capture every minute

[02:01.67] The feeling in it

[02:03.53] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:06.45] Do I really see what's in her mind

[02:09.11] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:13.36] She keeps on growing

[02:15.22] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:18.67] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:24.78] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[02:28.23] Slipping through my fingers

[02:52.68] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:57.19] Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning

[03:03.83] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile