All on the first day On the first day of the year You tried to destroy part of me Like you always do each time you’re near As a child I watched the dewdrops Picked out each pool of night that lay therein And I knew our love would be black as that And that we would never win And it was all on the first day, on the first day All on the first day of the year All on the first day On the first day of the year You told me what it was I thought and felt And you showed me, and you showed me what you fear You came in like some giant urizen With the shackles, with the shackles at your heel And I knew our love would be like that And that we could never feel And it was all on the first day, on the first day All on the first day of the year All on the first day You know my mind was full of snow When I knew our love was over And that we would never grow And it was all, and it was all, it was all, it was all All on the first day of the year