Where Does The Time Go?

How fast our children grow up .....

This weekend, my daughter Joan, my only child, was married to the love of her life, Ryan. I wish them all the happiness in the world.

It seems like only yesterday her mother and I brought her home from the hospital on a snowy, icy day. That was more than 24 years ago. Fast forward those months and years, a lot of water and events have moved under the proverbial bridge.

You two seem to be made for each other. Joan, Ryan, I hope you two have a wonderful life together!

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

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 some 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 .....