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