[Am/C] x32210
[G#] 466544
[G#m] 466444
[Bsus4] x24452
[B] x24442 or 799877
[A6] x02222
[Esus4] 022200
Verse
[A] [Am/C] [E] [C#m]
Schoolbag in hand She leaves home in the early morning
[A] [Am/C] [E] [G#m]
Waving goodbye With an absent-minded smile
[A] [Am/C] [E] [C#m]
I watch her go With a surge of that well-known sadness
[A] [Bsus4] [B] [E]
And I have to sit down for a while
[A] [B/D#] [E] [G#]
The feeling that I'm loosing her forever
[A] [B] [E]
And without really entering her world
[A] [B/D#] [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] [B] [E]
I try to capture every minute 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
[A] [Am/C] [E] [C#m]
Sleep in our eyes Her and me at the breakfast table
[A] [Am/C] [E] [G#m]
Barely awake I let precious time go by
[A] [Am/C] [E] [C#m]
Then when she's gone There's that odd melancholy feeling
[A] [Bsus4] [B] [E]
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
[A] [B/D#] [E] [G#]
What happened to the wonderful adventures
[A] [B] [E]
The places I had planned for us to go
(slipping through my fingers
all the time)
[A] [B/d#] [E]
Well some of that we did But most we didn't
[Bsus4] [B] [Esus4] [E]
And why I just don't know
Chorus
[E] [A6] [E]
Slipping through my fingers all the time
[G#m] [F#m] [B] [E]
I try to capture every minute 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
[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#] [A] [B] [E]
Slipping through my fingerS
[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] |
[A] [Am/C] [E] [C#m]
Schoolbag in hand She leaves home in the early morning
[A] [Am/C] [E] [G#m]
Waving goodbye With an absent-minded smile
