Slipping Through My Fingers / Me And I(Live From Dick Cavett Meets Abba, Sveriges Television / 1981) - ABBA

作词：Björn Ulvaeus/Benny Andersson

作曲：Björn Ulvaeus/Benny Andersson

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 losing 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

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

And save it from the funny tricks of time

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

Sometimes when I'm mad

There's a part of me

That seems to be a little sad

Sometimes when I scream

There's a voice in me that says

You shouldn't be so mean

Oh no oh no

Part of me is acting

While the other stands beside

Yes I am to myself

What Jekyll must have been to Hyde

We're like sun and rainy weather

Sometimes we're a hit together

Me and I

Gloomy moods and inspiration

We're a funny combination

Me and I

I don't think I'm different

Or in any way unique

Think about yourself for a minute

And you'll find the answer in it

Everyone's a freak

Sometimes I have toyed

With ideas that I got

From good old Dr Freud

Nothing new of course

It may seem to you

I try to break through open doors

Oh no oh no

I just wanna say

A lot of that applies to me

'Cause it's an explanation

To my split identity

We're like sun and rainy weather

Sometimes we're a hit together

Me and I

Gloomy moods and inspiration

We're a funny combination

Me and I

I don't think I'm different

Or in any way unique

Think about yourself for a minute

And you'll find the answer in it

Everyone's a freak

I don't think I'm different

Or in any way unique

Think about yourself for a minute

And you'll find the answer in it

Everyone's a freak

We're like sun and rainy weather

Sometimes we're a hit together

Me and I

Gloomy moods and inspiration

We're a funny combination

Me and I

We're like sun and rainy weather

Sometimes we're a hit together

Me and I

Gloomy moods and inspiration

We're a funny combination

Me and I