BLINK OF AN EYE

Child, when I look in your eyes You know my life seems like a minute There I find living proof Of all the wonder life holds in it In the past I thought I had to earn Any good that comes from this life we're living Here and now, let us realize That this life is gift, and it's already been given Someday, when you stand in the middle Like it or not, you're gonna look both ways You're gonna find that time is a riddle Where your days turn into years And years into the blink of an eye Child, once I saw a man on the TV Lead a nation up a mountain He said, children, look over yonder The flame of truth is burning brightly Sometimes you look so far, there's only so much time Only so many of us are gonna get there Here and now is all we really have But if we make it count, we got no reason to worry Someday, when you stand in the middle Like it or not, you're gonna look both ways You're gonna find that time is a riddle Where your days turn into years And years into the blink of an eye You're gonna walk that mile You're gonna be in that number You're gonna make that journey Just like the good book says There's a time to be born, a time to cross over You can be sure it's the blink of an eye Someday, when you stand in the middle Like it or not, you're gonna look both ways You're gonna find that time is a riddle Where your days turn into years And years into the blink of an eye You're gonna walk that mile You're gonna be in that number You're gonna make that journey Just like the good book says There's a time to be born, a time to cross over You can be sure it's the blink of an eye