Key: F#
G
Gm
Schoolbag in hand
D
F#m
She leaves home in the early morning
G
Gm
Waving goodbye
D
F#m
With an absent-minded smile
G
Gm
I watch her go
D
F#m
With a surge of that well-known sadness
G
A
D
And I have to sit down for a while
G
A/C#
D
F#
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
G
A
D
D/F#
And without really entering her world
G
A/C#
D
A4
D4
D
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter, 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
A4
A
D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
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
A4
A
D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
G
Gm
Sleep in our eyes
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F#m
Her and me at the breakfast table
G
Gm
Barely awake
D
F#m
I let precious time go by
G
Gm
Then when she's gone
D
F#m
There's that odd melancholy feeling
G
A
D
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
G
A/C#
D
F#
What happened to the wonderful adventures
G
A
D
D/F#
The places I had planned for us to go (slipping through my fingers all the time)
G
A/C#
Well some of that we did
D
But most we didn't
A4
D4
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
A4
A
D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
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
A4
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/F#
G
A
D
Slipping through my fingers
G
D
F#m
Em
G
D
A4
A
D
G
D
F#m
Em
G
D
A4
D
Slipping through my fingers all the time
G
Gm
Schoolbag in hand
D
F#m
She leaves home in the early morning
G
Gm
D
F#m
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile