"Slipping Through My Fingers"

[00:00.94] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:08.47] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:16.20] I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness

[00:23.71] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:29.65] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:36.50] And without really entering her world

[00:43.27] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:48.67] That funny little girl

[00:52.90] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:56.14] I try to capture every minute

[01:01.13] The feeling in it

[01:03.42] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:06.63] Do I really see what's in her mind

[01:09.89] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:14.90] She keeps on growing

[01:16.88] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:23.12] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:30.71] Barely awake I let precious time go by

[01:38.45] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:45.40] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:52.07] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[01:58.53] The places I had planned for us to go

[02:05.55] Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't

[02:10.70] And why, I just don't know

[02:15.20] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:18.20] I try to capture every minute

[02:23.44] The feeling in it

[02:25.45] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:28.96] Do I really see what's in her mind

[02:31.97] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:37.20] She keeps on growing

[02:39.20] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:43.09] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:50.27] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[02:54.63] Slipping through my fingers

[03:29.84] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[03:37.86] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile