Blink Of An Eye Lyrics

You go to school and try to make it work

You learn that sticks and stones can hurt

Grow your hair, join a band

Fall in love and quit the band

Reject your parents and elect your friends

Drive your teachers around the bend

Got a thirst for knowledge, so you go to college

Far from home and your little village

A bedsit in the city and dirty clothes

Pick up a pen and write a letter home

Find some friends and form a band

Three years fall like grains of sand

In the forest you're a tree

In the ocean an anemone

In the sky a puff of smoke

A blink of the eye in the universe

The world of work is an ironed shirt

A clock, a desk, a bench, a herd

Catch a bus and ride a train

Call the folks if you can find the time

A deposit down, a five-year plan

Pushing forty before you hit the ground

In the forest you're a tree

In the ocean an anemone

In the sky a puff of smoke

Just a blink of the eye

In the universe

You've run the race against the clock

Your memory's not what it was

There's more behind than you got in front

Cross off names in your address book

The days slip bye as you reminisce

The road disappears around the bend

In the forest you're a tree

In the ocean an anemone

In the sky a puff of smoke

A blink of the eye in the universe