Låten «Slipping through your fingers» er skrevet av Bjørn Ulvæus og Benny Anderson og er fra albumet «Visitors» fra 1981. Sangen er om en jente (muligens om Bjørn Ulvæus og Agnetha Fältskogs datter Linda) som skal begynne på skolen.
Her fra filmen Mamma Mia: Moren Donna hjelper datteren Sofie til å bli klar til bryllupet
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:
Med Abba:
På Spansk Se me esta escapando
STØRST AV ALT ER KJÆRLIGHETEN ! 