Slipping Through My Fingers

 VERSE
 A        Am/C

Schoolbag in hand
   E                 C#m

She leaves home in the early morning
 A  Am/C

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             Bsus4  B           E

And I have to sit down for a while
   A            B/D#bass        E       G#

The feeling that I'm loosing her forever
   A              B                   E

And without really entering her world
   A            B/D#bass         E

I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter
   Bsus4  B           Esus4  E

That funny little girl

 CHORUS
 E                A6               E

Slipping through my fingers all the time
        G#m          F#m

I try to capture every minute
   B          E

The feeling in it
                 Bsus4     B       E

Slipping through my fingers all the time
           A6                E

Do I really see what's in her mind
          G#m                F#m

Each time I think I'm close to knowing
   A        E

She keeps on growing
                 Bsus4     B       E

Slipping through my fingers all the time

 VERSE

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

 CHORUS

 A                     B                E        G#

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
    A               B               E

And save it from the funny tricks of time
 E/G#bass          A    B    E

Slipping through my fing ers
Guitar solo:  | A E  |  | G#m F#m |  | F#m A E |  | Bsus4 B E
              | A6 E |  | G#m F#m |  | F#m A E |