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Kenny Chesney - Don't Blink Lyrics

Artist: Kenny Chesney

Album: Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates

Genre: Country

  • Songwriters: Casey Michael Beathard, Chris Allen Wallin
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I turned on the evening news
Saw an old man being interviewed
Turning a hundred and two today

Asked him what's the secret to life?
He looked up from his old pipe
Laughed and said, "All I can say is

Don't blink, just like that you're six years old
And you take a nap
And you wake up and you're twenty-five
And your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

Don't blink, you just might miss
Your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads
Next thing you know your better half

Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years
Goes faster than you think, so don't blink

I was glued to my TV, when it looked
Like he looked at me and said
"Best start putting first things first"

'Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand
You can't flip it over and start again
Take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth

Don't blink, 'cause just like that you're six years old
And you take a nap
And you wake up and you're twenty-five
And your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

Don't blink, you just might miss
Your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads
Next thing you know your better half

Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years
Goes faster than you think, so don't blink

So I've been trying to slow it down
I've been trying to take it in
In this 'here today, gone tomorrow' world we're living in

So don't blink, 'cause just like that you're six years old
And you take a nap
And you wake up and you're twenty-five
And your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

Don't blink, you just might miss
Your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads
Next thing you know your better half

Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years
Goes faster than you think, so don't blink

No, don't blink
Don't blink
Life goes faster than you think
So don't blink

Life goes faster than you think
Don't blink
Don't blink
Life goes faster than you think


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  • Margie Shaffer Fritz

    If we could only remember this each day. But somehow, someway, and alwys, we race like rats from one end of the day to the next.

  • Anonymous

    this song is so true and has so much meaning too it. im only a pre teen and it makes me think about not only my parents but all the parents. i always think to myself that there are parents thinkg about it at this very moment.then it makes me think about how it doesnt help em by us kids trying to speed up time and go beyond our years of age and try to act like adults.

  • Anonymous

    I love this song too. It gives me the chills each time i hear or see the lyrics. It is true that life goes by really fast. I mean i am already a teenager and it seems like it was just yesterday that i was coming home from Russia when i was three

  • Anonymous

    best song ever! i love the lyrics because in the end they're so true, its sad that time can just fly like that but hey, wat can we do? i could listen to this song for the rest of my life and never get tired of it!

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