SUARA SEMARANG – Lirik Slipping Through My Fingers yang dinilai sangat menyentuh hati dan related dengan perasaan sejumlah ibu, belakangan sering muncul sebagai lagu latar video di TikTok maupun Instagram.
Adanya platform video yang disediakan pada sejumlah aplikasi media sosial mendorong kepopulatitasan berbagai jenis lagu. Tak terkecuali, lagu-lagu lawas yang sempat populer di eranya, kini terangkat kembali.
Diantaranya adalah lagu-lagu dari ABBA, grup musik asal Swedia yang populer di era 70 hingga 80-an. Termasuk lagu Sleeping Through My Fingers yang ditulis oleh Bjorn Ulvaeus dan Benny Andersson.
Lagu yang dirilis pada Juni 1981 tersebut menceritakan kesedihan, ketidaknyamanan seorang ibu. Ia mengenang masa-masa bersama putrinya yang “dengan cepat” mulai tumbuh dewasa. Ia merasa tidak cukup banyak yang waktu yang mereka habiskan bersama.
Berikut lirik dari lagu yang berdurasi 3 menit 51 detik ini.
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?
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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 planed 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
