Declan McKenna – Slipping Through My Fingers (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
C                    D         G       B
The feeling that I'm losing her forever

C                  D            G      B
While never 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
[Verse 2]
C            Cm            G         Bm
Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

C     Cm            G                Bm
Barely awake, I let precious time go by

C               Cm                 G         Bm
Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

      C            D         G
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
[Pre-Chorus]
C                   D         G           B
What happened to the wonderful adventures

C                D              G       B
The places I had planned for us to go?
(Slipping through my fingers all the time)
C                     D               G
Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

D                     G
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
[Outro]
C                     D                  G
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

    C                Cm6             G       B
And save it from the funny tricks of time

                      Bm7/D
Slipping through my fingers
| C | Cm6 | G | B | Am C | Cm | Em | D | | C | Cm | G | Bm | C | D | G | G |
C            Cm               G                   B
Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

C      Cm              Em              Bm
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile