Seems Like Only Yesterday

Emilie started kindergarten today. She's growing up, she's a big girl now. Seems like only yesterday she wasn't even tall enough to look out the window without a hand up.

Let Stephanie drive my truck the other day, she needs practice that day's drawing near. I remember sitting in scrubs holding her, my first born. Seems like only yesterday.

My son's now 12, an athlete, the goaltender; Mr. Shutout. It seems like only yesterday when I had to beg and pled with him to get him on the ice for his 'learn to skate' lessons. Seems like only yesterday.

Time is passing and passing fast. Having kids and seeing them grow certainly put it's all in perspective but makes me VERY proud, I'm a lucky man!

I turned on the evening news

Saw a 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're taking naps 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 and 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 over and start again

Take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth

Don't Blink

Just like that you're six years old and you're taking naps 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 livin' in

Don't blink

Just like that you're six years old and you're taking naps 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 you think

Don't blink

Naw, don't blink

Song lyrics to "Don't Blink" by Kenny Chesney off his soon to be released album titled, "Just Who I Am: Poets &Pirates"