Chords for Slipping Through My Fingers

Go _ [Bbm] back in time, [F] see this whole night _ early [Bb] morning
_ _ [Bbm] Waving goodbye _ [F] with an absent [Am]-minded smile _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] I watch [Bbm] you go [F] with a sigh of farewell
No [Bb] sadness, I [F] might have to [C] sit down [F] for a while _
The _ _ [Bb] _ feeling that [C] I'm losing [F] her forever
_ [A] _
_ Without [Bb] _ _ _ [C] really _ answering [F] her _ words _
_ I'm [Bb] _ glad when I go [C] and can't [F] strike her laughter
_ [C]
Upon hearing her [F] _ _ calls _
_ Slipping [Bb] through my fingers [F] every time I try [Am] to capture
Her [Gm] every movement
_ _ _ [Bb] That [F] feeling in me
Slipping through [C] my fingers [F] all the time
Do I [Gm] really see what's [F] in her mind?
Each [Am] time I think I'm close to [Gm]
no way
[Bb] She [F] keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the _ time
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _
Sleep [Bbm] in her _ eyes
Her [F] and me at the breakfast _ [Bb] table _ [Bbm] Barely awake
At [F] that precious time, [Am] girl, whoa _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] Then [Bbm] when she's _ gone
That [F] sad, old, _ melancholy _ [Bb] feeling
That sense [F] of [C] guilt I [F] can't deny _ _
_ _ [Bb] What happens to [C] those wonderful _ [F] _ adventures?
_ [A] _
_ _ [Bb] The places I [C] have planned for us [F] to go _ _
Were _ [Bb] some of them [C] we did the most [F] we did
And [C]
why I just [F] don't know _
_ Slipping [Bb] through my fingers [F] every time I try [Am] to capture
[Gm] Her every movement
_ _ [Bb] That [F] feeling in me
Slipping through my [C] fingers [F] all the time
Do I [Gm] really see what's [F] in her mind?
Each time [Am] I think I'm close to [Gm]
no way
_ She keeps [F] on growing
Slipping through [C] my fingers [F] all the time
[Bb] Sometimes I wish that [C] I could read [F] the picture
_ [A] _
_ _ [Bb] And save it from [C]
the funny trace
[F] Of time slipping [Bb] through my fingers
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_ _ _ [Bb] School _ [Bbm] back in hand
[F] She leaves home in the early _ [Bb] morning
_ Waving [Bbm] goodbye
_ [F] With an absent [Am]-minded smile _ _ _ _ _ _
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