Slipping through my fingers

[00:02.23] School bag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:11.59] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:18.21] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

[00:27.25] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:33.62] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:41.59] While never really entering her world

[00:49.56] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:55.69] That funny little girl

[01:00.72] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:04.71] I try to capture every minute

[01:10.29] The feeling in it

[01:12.93] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:16.93] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[01:20.63] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:26.48] She keeps on growing

[01:28.88] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:35.77] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:45.09] Barely awake, I let precious time go by

[01:52.51] Then, when she's gone, there's that old melancholy feeling

[02:00.75] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[02:07.63] What happened to our wonderful adventures?

[02:15.35] The places I had planned for us to go?

[02:23.04] Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't

[02:28.64] And why, I just don't know

[02:33.94] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:37.94] I try to capture every minute

[02:43.76] The feeling in it

[02:45.89] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:50.14] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[02:53.60] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:59.45] She keeps on growing

[03:02.10] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[03:08.73] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[03:17.52] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[03:25.20] Slipping through my fingers

[03:59.99] School bag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[04:09.77] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile