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    "Slipping Through My Fingers" is a song written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny


    Andersson and recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA from their 1981 album The Visitors,
    [1]
    with lead vocals by Agnetha Fältskog. The song is about a mother's regret at how quickly
    her daughter is growing up, and the lack of time they have spent together, as the girl goes to
    school.

    "Slipping Through My Fingers"

    Song by ABBA
    from the album The Visitors
    Released June 1981
    March 16–19, 1981
    Recorded
    at Polar Music Studios
    Genre Europop
    Length 3:51
    Discomate (Japan)
    Label
    RCA (South America)
    Benny Andersson
    Songwriter(s)
    Björn Ulvaeus
    Benny Andersson
    Producer(s)
    Björn Ulvaeus
    Alternative cover

    Se Me Está Escapando, Argentina


    Music video
    "Slipping Through My Fingers (From:Dick Cavett Meets ABBA, 1981)" on YouTube

    The inspiration for the song was Ulvaeus' and Fältskog's daughter, Linda Ulvaeus, who was
    seven at the time the song was written.

    The song was only released as a single in Japan (Discomate, 1981), where it was a red
    vinyl promo single for The Coca-Cola Company with nothing on the B-side except a printed
    picture of the group. An album with the same name and a similar-looking cover was also
    released in Japan.

    Contents
     1 Spanish version
     2 Cover versions
     3 References
     4 External links

    Spanish versionEdit
    "Se Me Está Escapando" is the Spanish Language version of "Slipping Through My
    Fingers", with lyrics by Buddy and Mary McCluskey. The song was released as a single in
    Spanish-speaking countries in 1982 and also included on the South American versions of the
    album The Visitors. The track was first released on CD in 1994 as part of the Polydor US
    compilation Más ABBA Oro, and in 1999 included on the expanded re-release of ABBA Oro:
    Grandes Éxitos.
    Cover versionsEdit
     The song is used in the ABBA songs-based musical Mamma Mia!, as well as the
    2008 movie adaptation. This version was certified Silver by BPI in 2021.[2]
     American stage musical singer Wendy Coates recorded a cover of the song for her
    2001 album Journeys.

    ReferencesEdit
    1. ^ "The Visitors". Swedish mediadatabse. 1981. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
    2. ^ "British certifications – Original Cast Recording – Slipping Through My Fingers". British
    Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 25 December 2021.

    Tentang
    Artis: ABBA
    Album: Thank You for the Music
    Dirilis: 1994
    Genre: Pop

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    Slipping Through My Fingers

    Lisa Stokke, Siobhán McCarthy · 1999

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    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
    (Slipping through my fingers all the time)
    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

    Slipping through my fingers all the time

    Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning


    Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

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