Slipping Through My Fingers

School bag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness And I have to sit down for a while The feeling that I'm losing her forever While never really entering her world I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter That funny little girl 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 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 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 Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture And save it from the funny tricks of time Slipping through my fingers School bag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

When I get up I've dreamt too long Everything else is half as strong I could see though, outside my head They got it right, I got it wrong I've let too much of it slide through my fingers Fear that has fouled all the love I could bring her Shook off her optimistic hand I am too fixed on what I've planned Who is the one who can't let go? I will miss out, hell, don't I know I've let too much of it slide through my fingers Fear that has fouled all the love I could bring her I've let too much of it slide through my fingers Fear that has fouled all the love I could bring her I've let too much of it slide through my fingers Fear that has fouled all the songs I could sing her I've let too much of it slide through my fingers

Surviving so cleanly My life's got no meaning When I'm just appealing For all the gems of your mind, yeah The world keeps on turning But I cast no shadow Sucked in so sweetly On something divine Alone in the dark Got stonewalled in silence When the wolves they come barking And the stars they don't guide me home Why'd you run away, my friend When you got all you wanted? With your car flashing silver And your teeth laced in diamonds and sulfur and jewels I could break down all these walls ripping energy Push aside the fear, don't waste it on the wonder Feel the rush, I hold the world and you're holding me We're coming home again I could wake up in the ward dripping epipens Cast away the distant sea and watch me bomb it We can make it with love and again and again And again and again and again This world isn't safe Believe me 'cause I I'm back from the dead So leave me in bed And say that I didn't care When I'm gone then I'm gone I'm back from the dead I'll kill you And I'll open up the black hole in my chest I'll give you the world How dark does the rabbit hole go? But will you follow me? But will you follow me? And will you follow me? Love ain't looking over your shoulder I could break down all these walls ripping energy Now push aside the fear, don't waste it on the wonder Feel the rush, I hold the world and you're holding me We're coming home again I could wake up in the ward dripping epipens Cast away the distant sea and watch me bomb it We can make it with love and again and again And again and again and again I pull the trigger on my darkness a world within A shot of liquor, telecaster, it's under my skin I wanna pull this place apart but the taxi's here So wish me well upon a star 'cause I'm caving in (That's what you get, get, get, get, get)

Leaving through the back door Freezing in the cold Communication breakdown Emotional overload Been through a wall of fire Now I feel like the ashes glow Ashes glow. Cars passing on the freeway My mind is on the run I keep running from my shadow I'm not the only one Somewhere in the distance Someone's taking flight Destination unknown Just fade into the light There's so much said and done But after all The time has come, to leave it all Behind If you could see it through my eyes You'd know I tried to change it all I've been trying all my life To stand up every time I fall If you could see it through my eyes I feel sadness up my spine The future on my hands I'm standing here alone With open arms again Tomorrow ain't no stranger There'll be a lucky star And love will find it's way Into someone's heart Too late for tears No time to be confused It's just the echo of our Swan song If you could see it through my eyes You'd know I tried to change it all I've been trying all my life To stand up every time I fall If you could see it through my eyes You'd see that love will always wait Somewhere out there is my life A new love that comes my way If you could see it through my eyes Through my eyes Through my eyes Through my... eyes If you could see it through my eyes You'd know I tried to change it all I've been trying all my life To stand up every time I fall If you could see it through my eyes You'd see that love will always wait Somewhere out there is my life A new love that comes my way If you could see it through my eyes Through my eyes Through my eyes Through my... eyes What was meant to be forever Is breaking all apart (through my eyes) What was meant to be forever Leaves the hole inside my heart (through my eyes) What was meant to be forever We throw it all away (through my... eyes) What was meant to be forever Was nothing but a game What was meant to be forever Is breaking all apart What was meant to be forever