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Don't Blink

Song · 2007 · Kenny Chesney. Album: Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates

Don't blink — it goes by faster than you think ⏰

Who it's for

Kenny Chesney's number-one hit tells of an elderly man reflecting on how quickly an entire life goes by.

Startled by time→Present, grateful

Feelings it meets

What it is

"Don't Blink" is a 2007 country single by Kenny Chesney from Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, written by Casey Beathard and Chris Wallin. The narrator sees a news interview with a 102-year-old man who is asked the secret to a long life, and the old man's answer is that life passes quickly.

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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

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