At first, the war was hard and fast

We shot the young ones in the grass

Somehow, they shot our fathers' hearts

At first, the war was hard and fast

And then the war was fast and strange

The men I knew began to change

Fought side by side with people who

They said had died before they knew

All the time and all the worlds

All the kings and all the earls

All the cows and all the churls

All the boys and all the girls

In the time war

And then the war was strange and long

The men I knew had all been gone

I never knew how far they'd come

And then the war was strange and long

And now the war is long and slow

We find the young ones in the snow

Their children's children never know

And now the war is long and slow

Time takes everything you have

It breaks your heart, and then you laugh

It tears your world apart in half

Time takes everything you have