Intro
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Childhood often seemed a pain to me
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So hard waiting to be grown
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Childhood climbed up in a white oak tree
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I blinked once and it was gone
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Airplane flyin' across a midnight sky
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His tiny lights blinked off and on
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I watched him move across the moon on high
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Well I blinked once and it was gone
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Gone, gone, yeah
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I blinked once and it was gone
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A girl I'd met was all I cared for, friends
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I called her my very own
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We went down to hear the band begin
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I blinked once and she was gone
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Gone, gone, yeah
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I blinked once and it was gone
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I won big money on the gamblin' wheel
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And I thought I was sittin' on a throne
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Big John told me 'bout his condo deal
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I blinked once and it was gone
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The nineteen seventies was ten long years
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Was ten long years to sing a song
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It kicked off madly with a New Year's cheer
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I blinked once and it was gone
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That's right, it was gone, gone, yeah
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I blinked once and it was gone
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Now old man's talkin' 'bout a gun he'd shot
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An' he weren't much more than skin and bone
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Lyin' there breathin' on this worn out cot
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I blinked once and he was gone
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And he was gone, gone
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I blinked once and he was gone, gone
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I blinked once and he was gone, gone, gone
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I blinked once and he was gone