Slipping Through My Finger

[00:02.06] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:09.76] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:18.00] I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness

[00:25.44] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:31.81] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:38.45] And without really entering her world

[00:45.62] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:51.20] That funny little girl

[00:55.46] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:58.37] I try to capture every minute

[01:03.42] The feeling in it

[01:05.81] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:09.26] Do I really see what's in her mind

[01:12.18] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:17.23] She keeps on growing

[01:19.62] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:25.73] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:33.44] Barely awake I let precious time go by

[01:41.67] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:48.84] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:55.48] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[02:02.39] The places I had planned for us to go

[02:09.56] Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't

[02:14.61] And why, I just don't know

[02:19.39] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:22.31] I try to capture every minute

[02:27.36] The feeling in it

[02:29.75] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:33.47] Do I really see what's in her mind

[02:36.39] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:41.44] She keeps on growing

[02:43.83] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:48.08] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:54.98] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[02:59.50] Slipping through my fingers...

[03:27.65] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[03:34.03] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[03:42.00] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile