Key:
Introduction:
G D
Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
G D F#m
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
G Gm D
I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness
G A D
And I have to sit down for a while
G A D F#
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
G A D
And without really entering her world
G A D
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter
A D
That funny little girl
G D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
F#m Em
I try to capture every minute
G D
The feeling in it
A Bm
Slipping through my fingers all the time
D G D
Do I really see what's in her mind
F#m Em
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
D
She keeps on growing
A D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
G Gm D G
Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table
Gm D F#m
Barely awake I let precious time go by
G Gm D
Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling
G A D
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
G A D F#
What happened to those wonderful adventures?
G A D
The places I had planned for us to go? (Slipping through my fingers all the time)
G A D
Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't
A D
And why? I just don't know
G D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
F#m Em
I try to capture every minute
G D
The feeling in it
A Bm
Slipping through my fingers all the time
D G D
Do I really see what's in her mind
F#m Em
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
G D
She keeps on growing
A D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
G A D F#
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
G A D
And save it from the funny tricks of time
D
Slipping through my fingers (Slipping through my fingers all the time)
(Instrumental)
G D
Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
G Gm D
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile