Declan McKenna - Slipping Through My Fingers: chords

C            Cm                G           Bm
Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early
morning
C       Cm             G              Bm
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
C           Cm         G             Bm
I watch her go with a surge of that well-known
sadness
C              D              G
And I have to sit down for a while

C                     D            G   B
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
C                  D             G
And without really entering her world
C                 D            G
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter
D                  G
That funny little girl

Chorus:
G                    C               G
Slipping through my fingers all the time
         Bm            Am
I try to capture every minute
C           G
The feeling in it
G                    D               G
Slipping through my fingers all the time
             C                 G
Do I really see what's in her mind?
             Bm                 Am
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
     C         G
She keeps on growing
                     D               G
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
old melancholy feeling
And a sense of guilt I can't deny

What happened to our 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

Chorus:
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

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

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