Slipping Through My Fingers

A             Am
Schoolbag in hand
             E          C#m
She leaves home in the early morning
A         Am
Waving goodbye
         E             G#m
With an absent-minded smile
A           Am
I watch her go
        E              C#m
With a surge of that well-known 
sadness
A                B             E
And I have to sit down for a while

      A              B         
The feeling that I'm loosing her 
   E       G#
forever
    A             B           
And without really entering her 
   E
world
     A               B/D#        
I'm glad whenever I can share her 
E
laughter
       B             E4     E
That funny little girl

                   A6              
Slipping through my fingers all the
  E
 time
       G#m            F#m
I try to capture every minute
              E
The feeling in it
                   B4              
Slipping through my fingers all the 
E
time
           A6              E
Do I really see what's in her mind
          G#m                
Each time I think I'm close to 
F#m
knowing
   A           E
She keeps on growing
                       B           
Slipping through my fingers all the 
E
time

 A            Am
Sleep in our eyes
       E                    C#m
Her and me at the breakfast table
A          Am
Barely awake
       E                G#m
I let precious time go by
 A              Am
Then when she's gone
  E                         C#m
There's that odd melancholy feeling
A               B
And a sense of guilt
          E
I can't deny
       A               B     
What happened to the wonderful 
         E    G#
adventures
      A              B            
The places I had planned for us to
   E
 go
(Slipping through my fingers all the
 time)
      A            B
Well some of that we did
               E
But most we didn't
     B                E
And why I just don't know

                   A6              
Slipping through my fingers all the
  E
 time
       G#m            F#m
I try to capture every minute
              E
The feeling in it
                   B4              
Slipping through my fingers all the 
E
time
           A6              E
Do I really see what's in her mind
          G#m                
Each time I think I'm close to 
F#m
knowing
   A           E
She keeps on growing
                       B           
Slipping through my fingers all the 
E
time

 A                      B         
Sometimes I wish that I could 
      E        G#
freeze the picture
    A               B             
And save it from the funny tricks 
  E
of time
( E/G# )               A   B    E
      Slipping through my fingers

[Solo]

A             Am
Schoolbag in hand
             E          C#m
She leaves home in the early morning
A         Am
Waving goodbye
         E             G#m
With an absent-minded smile