Lyrics

He gets up in the morning and
Staggers down the hall.
Turns on the light, looks in the mirror and
He’s shocked at what he sees.
Crow’s feet, thinning hair,
Dark, baggy eyes.
It’s some old stranger
Staring back at me.”

It seems like only yesterday
He was just sixteen.
Working that first job
For that first car.
But somewhere along the way,
He went from brown to gray.
Thought growing old was
Always off so far.

But, in the blink of an eye,
Like a flash of lightning from the sky,
It happens all at once
And life passes by.
So, climb that mountain,
Take that chance,
Love, laugh, and cry,
‘Cause it all goes by
In the blink of an eye.

Growing up, a week
Feels like forever.
Every day seems
Longer than the last.
We just can’t wait to cut the strings,
Face the world and spread our wings
But once we get there,
We long for the past.

‘Cause in the blink of an eye,
Like a flash of lightning from the sky,
It happens all at once
And life passes by.
So, climb that mountain,
Take that chance,
Love, laugh, and cry,
‘Cause it all goes by
In the blink of an eye.

Now that old man stares back at him
From the mirror on the wall.
If he could just rewind the clock.
He’d go back and relive it all.

‘Cause in the blink of an eye,
Like a flash of lightning from the sky,
It happens all at once
And life passes by.
So, climb that mountain,
Take that chance,
Love, laugh, and cry,
‘Cause it all goes by…
It all goes by…
Yeah, it all goes by…
In the blink of an eye.
In the blink of an eye.