Slippin' Through My Fingers

SLIPPIN THROUGH MY FINGERS        ABBA          

KEY C

VERSE 1

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School bag in hand, she leaves home 

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in the ear-ly mor -ing

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Wav-ing good-bye with an ab-sent-mind-ed smile

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I watch her go with a surge 

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of that well-known sad-ness

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And I have to sit down for a while

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The feel-ing that I'm los-ing her for-ev-er

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And with-out real-ly en-ter-ing her world

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I'm glad when-ev-er I can share her laugh-ter

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That fun-ny lit-tle girl

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Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time

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I try to cap-ture ev-ry min-ute

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The feel-ing in it

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Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time

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Do I real-ly see what's in her mind

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Each time I think I'm close to know-ing

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She keeps on grow-ing

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Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time


VERSE 2

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

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Some-times I wish that I could 

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freeze the pic-ture

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And save it from the fun-ny tricks of time

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Slip-ping through my fin-gers...

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School bag in hand, she leaves 

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home in the ear-ly mor-ning

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Wav-ing good-bye with an ab-sent-mind-ed smile

ENJOY!!