Slipping Through My Fingers

[00:00.05] Gerri S. Siregar

[00:02.44] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:10.14] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:18.11] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

[00:26.08] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:32.13] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:39.04] And without really entering her world

[00:46.21] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:51.52] That funny little girl

[00:55.77] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:59.22] I try to capture every minute

[01:04.01] The feeling in it

[01:06.13] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:09.58] Do I really see what's in her mind

[01:12.79] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:17.83] She keeps on growing

[01:20.23] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:26.34] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:34.04] Barely awake, I let precious time go by

[01:42.01] Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:48.89] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:55.79] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[02:02.97] The places I had planned for us to go

[02:07.43] (Slipping through my fingers all the time)

[02:09.82] Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

[02:15.04] And why I just don't know

[02:19.82] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:23.01] I try to capture every minute

[02:28.05] The feeling in it

[02:30.18] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:33.63] Do I really see what's in her mind

[02:36.82] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:42.13] She keeps on growing

[02:44.26] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:48.24] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:55.43] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[03:00.19] Slipping through my fingers...

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

[03:34.19] Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning

[03:42.43] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile...