Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried - Slipping Through My Fingers (From 'Mamma Mia!' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

[00:00.84] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning [00:08.86] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile [00:16.32] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness [00:23.72] And I have to sit down for a while [00:30.13] The feeling that I'm losing her forever [00:36.71] And without really entering her world [00:43.47] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter [00:48.52] That funny little girl [00:53.23] Slipping through my fingers all the time [00:56.43] I try to capture every minute [01:01.58] The feeling in it, slipping through my fingers all the time [01:07.06] Do I really see what's in her mind? [01:10.00] Each time I think I'm close to knowing [01:15.14] She keeps on growing, slipping through my fingers all the time [01:23.39] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table [01:30.97] Barely awake, I let precious time go by [01:38.68] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling [01:45.88] And a sense of guilt I can't deny [01:52.40] What happened to those wonderful adventures? [01:58.83] The places I had planned for us to go? (Slipping through my fingers all the time) [02:05.67] Well, some of that we did, but most, we didn't [02:11.17] And why? I just don't know [02:15.56] Slipping through my fingers all the time [02:18.61] I try to capture every minute [02:23.65] The feeling in it, slipping through my fingers all the time [02:29.12] Do I really see what's in her mind? [02:32.27] Each time I think I'm close to knowing [02:37.31] She keeps on growing, slipping through my fingers all the time [02:43.95] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture [02:50.48] And save it from the funny tricks of time [02:55.03] Slipping through my fingers [03:02.86] [03:30.29] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning [03:38.15] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile [03:46.36]