for all those who watched Mamma Mia! i think this song is easily recognizable coz its the part where meryl streep helped her 'daughter', amanda seyfried. it almost moved me to tears. and.. i think that's one of my favourite parts of any wedding. the mother and daughter part, just before the daughter is about to get married. its so sweet. a sense of regret and loss, reminscent and in a way, letting go of the apron strings knowing the daughter's beginning a new chapter in her life.
Slipping Through My Fingers
DONNA:Schoolbag 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 loosing her forever
And without 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 odd melancholy feeling
And a sense of guilt
I can't deny
What happened to the 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
DONNA & SOPHIE:
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers
-DONNA:
Schoolbag in hand
She leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
