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Slipping Through My Fingers Lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson

Mamma Mia!: Original Cast Recording

1999

[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 rеally see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
Shе 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
Credits
Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson

Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson

About “Slipping Through My Fingers” by Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson

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"Slipping Through My Fingers" appears on "Mamma Mia!: Original Cast Recording" in 1999.

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