[ti:Slipping Through My Fingers ] [ar:] [al:213652] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.20]Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning [00:07.18]Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile [00:15.30]I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness [00:22.57]And I have to sit down for a while [00:28.85]The feeling that I'm losing her forever [00:35.64]And without really entering her world [00:42.36]I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter [00:46.69]That funny little girl [00:51.92]Slipping through my fingers all the time [00:54.94]I try to capture every minute [01:00.02]The feeling in it [01:02.14]Slipping through my fingers all the time [01:05.62]Do I really see what's in her mind [01:08.60]Each time I think I'm close to knowing [01:13.74]She keeps on growing [01:15.91]Slipping through my fingers all the time [01:22.34]Sleep in our eyes her and me at the breakfast table [01:29.78]Barely awake I let precious time go by [01:37.64]Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling [01:44.91]And a sense of guilt I can't deny [01:50.41]What happened to the wonderful adventures [01:57.87]The places I had planned for us to go [02:02.98](slipping through my fingers all the time) [02:04.97]Well some of that we did but most we didn't [02:10.26]And why I just don't know [02:14.33]Slipping through my fingers all the time [02:17.19]I try to capture every minute [02:22.27]The feeling in it [02:24.37]Slipping through my fingers all the time [02:27.81]Do I really see what's in her mind [02:30.91]Each time I think I'm close to knowing [02:36.00]She keeps on growing [02:38.11]Slipping through my fingers all the time [02:42.56]Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture [02:48.91]And save it from the funny tricks of time [02:53.63]Slipping through my fingers [03:13.80]Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning [03:21.52]Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile