Mamma Mia! Musical Lyrics

Slipping Through My Fingers

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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