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ABBA Slipping Through My Fingers - Live 1981 - Lead Vocals Only

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ABBA Slipping Through My Fingers - Live 1981 - Lead Vocals Only

Lyrics -

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
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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  • This is just the center channel from the 5.1 mix found on the DVD on the Complete Studio Recordings from 2005!

    And it's NOT in stereo.

    But it's nonetheless amazing!

  • Well of course :) but who did think to upload the vocal channel before?

  • Nobody though of it, of course!

    But I think more people have discovered it, just that none has upload it to youtube before!

  • To be honest, I'm surprised no has done this before me! But its still great to hear Aggie and Frida like this! I love it!

  • how did you manage to get just the centre channel?

  • I extracted the audio to Audacity, and worked with the mutitracks from there.

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  • Frida <3

  • WOW! This is genius. Whey call this method "oopse"? Anyway, I like both voices but when Frida joins Agnetha, the song becomes even more beautiful. Awesome!

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  • @graficjack It isn't that hard for a singer to do a quick flip to "head voice" which is what Frida is doing and she is singing the harmony in the song. Frida stated herself that Agnetha had a "much higher voice" which is evident in most, if not allof ABBA's recordings. That doesn't mean Frida is incapable of singing in higher registers or Agnetha singing in lower registers.

  • This showa you what makesABBA ABBA. Those voices, so unalike, working together to produce that most fantastic sound. Just wonderful.

  • Para aquellos que dudan de las voces de ellas. Muy buena idea, excelente. Porque muchos cantantes se ayudan con los instrumentos y no cantan nada bien. Pero ellas de verdad son el alma de ABBA o lo fueron. Son las que le ponen vida a ésas letras.

  • Awesome... this vid proves that even though Frida was a mezzo-soprano, she had a huge range and a huge voice and in fact sang the highest note in this song. At 3:00, it's clear Agnetha isn't singing, but Frida (off camera) is.

  • Neat !

  • This is true LOVE to her Linda.I cryed when I heard and saw that video.That blond angel.....Aaaah...ABBA something special 1

  • Whoaaa!!!! This is just incredibly beautiful! In a way, it's even better than the music version! It's like they are in the same room with you, or something like that. Really really great job you did!!! Do you have more videos like this one? If not, could you please upload more?

  • that a pretty cool video how did you do that?

  • Really great! Thanks for this!

  • I am sure that they re-recorded the vocals in the studio. If these were the live vocals, we would be hearing the band so much louder than what is here. What little we hear sounds like what would be heard from the vocalist's headphone in the recording booth. I believe it has been documented in one of the ABBA timeline books that some lead vocals for the "ABBA The Movie" concert scenes were redone in the studio. The song "I Wonder" comes to mind.

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