Slipping Through My Fingers-ABBA

[ti:Slipping Through My Fingers] [ar:ABBA] [al:The Visitors (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.18]Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning [00:08.92]Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile [00:16.95]I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness [00:24.45]And I have to sit down for a while [00:30.81]The feeling that I'm losing her forever [00:37.74]And without really entering her world [00:44.67]I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter [00:50.16]That funny little girl [00:54.42]Slipping through my fingers all the time [00:57.66]I try to capture every minute [01:02.65]The feeling in it [01:04.77]Slipping through my fingers all the time [01:08.27]Do I really see what's in her mind [01:11.26]Each time I think I'm close to knowing [01:16.41]She keeps on growing [01:18.47]Slipping through my fingers all the time [01:24.71]Sleep in our eyes her and me at the breakfast table [01:32.48]Barely awake I let precious time go by [01:40.72]Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling [01:47.52]And a sense of guilt I can't deny [01:54.39]What happened to the wonderful adventures [02:01.37]The places I had planned for us to go [02:05.93](Slipping through my fingers all the time) [02:08.43]Well some of that we did but most we didn't [02:13.73]And why I just don't know [02:18.22]Slipping through my fingers all the time [02:21.47]I try to capture every minute [02:26.54]The feeling in it [02:28.53]Slipping through my fingers all the time [02:32.16]Do I really see what's in her mind [02:35.34]Each time I think I'm close to knowing [02:40.45]She keeps on growing [02:42.64]Slipping through my fingers all the time [02:46.69]Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture [02:54.05]And save it from the funny tricks of time [02:58.59]Slipping through my fingers [03:27.66]Slipping through my fingers all the time [03:32.76]Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning [03:41.12]Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile