I Blinked Once-John Oates/Bekka Bramlett

[ti:I Blinked Once] [ar:John Oates/Bekka Bramlett] [al:An American Troubadour: The Songs Of Steve Forbert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Blinked Once - John Oates [00:03.82]Childhood often seemed a pain to me [00:06.80] [00:07.98]So hard waiting to be grown [00:10.84] [00:12.79]Childhood climbed up in a white oak tree [00:15.86] [00:17.07]I blinked once and it was gone [00:19.64] [00:22.13]Airplane flying across the midnight sky [00:25.08] [00:26.18]His tiny lights blinked off and on [00:28.77] [00:30.69]I watched him move across the moon on high [00:34.09] [00:35.19]I blinked once and it was gone [00:37.60] [00:39.34]Gone gone yeah [00:43.48] [00:44.26]I blinked once and it was gone [00:46.70] [00:48.83]A girl I'd met was all I cared for friends [00:52.52] [00:53.28]I called her my very own [00:56.18] [00:57.83]We went down to hear the band begin [01:01.63] [01:02.34]I blinked once and she was gone [01:04.86] [01:06.51]Gone gone yeah [01:10.58] [01:11.44]I blinked once and she was gone [01:14.18] [01:15.77]Gone gone gone [01:19.76] [01:20.51]I blinked once and it was gone [01:22.99] [01:25.01]The nineteen seventies was ten long years [01:28.44] [01:29.52]Was ten long years to sing a song [01:32.34] [01:34.19]It kicked off madly with a new year's cheer [01:37.67] [01:38.51]I blinked once and it was gone [01:41.29] [01:43.61]Gone gone gone [01:44.80] [02:04.15]Now old man's talking about a gun he'd shot [02:06.81] [02:08.03]And he weren't much more than skin and bone [02:10.33] [02:12.57]Lying there breathing on this worn out cot [02:15.78] [02:17.03]I blinked once and he was gone [02:21.52]Gone gone gone [02:25.40] [02:26.12]I blinked once and he was gone [02:28.97] [02:30.29]Gone gone yeah [02:35.37]I blinked once and he was gone [02:37.68]Come on [02:38.53] [02:39.30]Gone gone gone [02:43.68] [02:44.34]I blinked once and he was gone [02:47.01] [02:48.43]Gone gone yeah [02:53.14]I blinked once and he was gone [02:56.12] [02:57.15]Gone gone yeah [03:01.72] [03:02.45]I blinked once and he was gone [03:04.87] [03:06.69]Gone gone yeah [03:10.90] [03:11.41]I blinked once and he was gone