[00:03.62]Childhood often seemed a pain to me
[00:07.78]So hard waiting to be grown
[00:12.59]Childhood climbed up in a white oak tree
[00:16.87]I blinked once and it was gone
[00:21.93]Airplane flying across the midnight sky
[00:25.98]His tiny lights blinked off and on
[00:30.49]I watched him move across the moon on high
[00:34.99]I blinked once and it was gone
[00:39.14]Gone gone yeah
[00:44.06]I blinked once and it was gone
[00:48.63]A girl I'd met was all I cared for friends
[00:53.08]I called her my very own
[00:57.63]We went down to hear the band begin
[01:02.14]I blinked once and she was gone
[01:06.31]Gone gone yeah
[01:11.24]I blinked once and she was gone
[01:15.57]Gone gone gone
[01:20.31]I blinked once and it was gone
[01:24.81]The nineteen seventies was ten long years
[01:29.32]Was ten long years to sing a song
[01:33.99]It kicked off madly with a new year's cheer
[01:38.31]I blinked once and it was gone
[01:43.41]Gone gone gone
[02:03.95]Now old man's talking about a gun he'd shot
[02:07.83]And he weren't much more than skin and bone
[02:12.37]Lying there breathing on this worn out cot
[02:16.83]I blinked once and he was gone
[02:21.32]Gone gone gone
[02:25.92]I blinked once and he was gone
[02:30.09]Gone gone yeah
[02:35.17]I blinked once and he was gone
[02:37.48]Come on
[02:39.10]Gone gone gone
[02:44.14]I blinked once and he was gone
[02:48.23]Gone gone yeah
[02:52.94]I blinked once and he was gone
[02:56.95]Gone gone yeah
[03:02.25]I blinked once and he was gone
[03:06.49]Gone gone yeah
[03:11.21]I blinked once and he was gone