I Blinked Once Lyrics - Steve Forbert

Childhood often seemed a pain to me 

So hard waiting to be grown 

Childhood climbed up in a white oak tree 

I blinked once and it was gone 

Airplane flyin' across a midnight sky 

His tiny lights blinked off and on 

I watched him move across the moon on high 

Well I blinked once and it was gone 

Gone, gone, yeah 

I blinked once and it was gone 

A girl I'd met was all I cared for, friends 

I called her my very own 

We went down to hear the band begin 

I blinked once and she was gone 

Gone, gone, yeah 

I blinked once and it was gone 

I won big money on the gamblin' wheel 

And I thought I was sittin' on a throne 

Big John told me 'bout his condo deal 

I blinked once and it was gone 

The nineteen seventies was ten long years 

Was ten long years to sing a song 

It kicked off madly with a New Year's cheer 

I blinked once and it was gone 

That's right, it was gone, gone, yeah 

I blinked once and it was gone 

Now old man's talkin' 'bout a gun he'd shot 

An' he weren't much more than skin and bone 

Lyin' there breathin' on this worn out cot 

I blinked once and he was gone 

And he was gone, gone 

I blinked once and he was gone, gone 

I blinked once and he was gone, gone, gone 

I blinked once and he was gone