Slipping Through My Fingers Uke tab by Declan Mckenna

[Verse 1]

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Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

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Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

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I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

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And I have to sit down for a while

 

[Pre-Chorus]

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The feeling that I'm losing her forever

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And without really entering her world

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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

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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

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Slipping through my fingers all the time

 

[Verse 2]

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Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

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Barely awake, I let precious time go by

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Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

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And a sense of guilt I can't deny

 

[Pre-Chorus]

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What happened to the wonderful adventures

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The places I had planned for us to go?

(Slipping through my fingers all the time)

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Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

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And why? I just don't know

 

[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

                    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

 

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Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

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And save it from the funny tricks of time