Slipping Through My Fingers(1981)/Meryl Streep & Amanda Seyfried (2008)

Slipping Through My Fingers

Meryl Streep & Amanda Seyfried

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

Waying 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

  Repeat *

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

And save it from the funny tricks of time

Slipping through my fingers

Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

He dresses in a manner befitting his state.

      befitting   걸맞는

state  지위   신분

tense:  긴장된, 땡땡한    (문법)  시제   tension   긴장

In earlier English the present tense often functioned as a future.

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2020. 01. 16