Mamma Mia Soundtrack Slipping Through My Fingers Lyrics

Slipping Through My Fingers Lyrics

DONNA:

 Schoolbag in hand

 She leaves home in the early morning

 Waving goodbye

 With an absent-minded smile

 I watch her go

 With a surge of that well-known sadness

 And I have to sit down for a while

 The feeling that I'm loosing her forever

 And without really entering her world

 I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

 That funny little girl

 

 Slipping through my fingers all the time

 I try to capture every minute

 The feeling in it

 Slipping through my fingers all the time

 Do I really see what's in her mind

 Each time I think I'm close to knowing

 She keeps on growing

 Slipping through my fingers all the time

 

 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

 Well some of that we did

 But most we didn't

 And why I just don't know

 

 Slipping through my fingers all the time

 I try to capture every minute

 The feeling in it

 Slipping through my fingers all the time

 Do I really see what's in her mind

 Each time I think I'm close to knowing

 She keeps on growing

 Slipping through my fingers all the time

 

 DONNA & SOPHIE:

 Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

 And save it from the funny tricks of time

 Slipping through my fingers -

 

 DONNA:

 Schoolbag in hand

 She leaves home in the early morning

 Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile: