Lyrics I Blinked Once - Steve Forbert

I Blinked Once

Airplane flyin across the midnight sky
His tiny lights blinked off and on I watched 'im move across the moon on high
I blinked once and it was gone
(A)gone (Bm)gone (G) I blinked (A)once and it was (D)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 I blinked once and it was gone
I won big money on the gamblin wheel
And I thought i’s sittin on a throne
big john told me bout his condo deal
I blinked once and It was gone
gone gone 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
gone gone 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 an bone
lyin there breathin on this worn out cot
I blinked once and he was gone
gone gone, I blinked once and he was gone