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) | 
 
Schoolbag in hand 
She leaves home in the early morning 
                                   (G#m) 
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile