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Slipping Through My Fingers Lyrics – ABBA

    Slipping through my fingers lyrics by Abba from The Vistors

    Slipping Through My Fingers is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA in their 1981 Album “The Visitors”. The song is about a mother’s regret at how quickly her daughter is growing up, and the lack of time they have spent together, as the girl goes to school. Get Abba Slipping Through My Fingers Lyrics in English here.

    Slipping Through My Fingers Lyrics – ABBA 

    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 losing 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

    Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
    And save it from the funny tricks of time

    Slipping through my fingers…

    Slipping through my fingers all the time

    Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
    Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

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