those who start wars never fight them and those who fight wars they never like them and those who write laws can recite them and those who fight laws they live and die by them but i know its time yes i know its time it s time to go home it s time to go home it s time to go home it s time to go home don t take our boys away don t take our girls away don t take our boys away don t take our girls away those who build walls are pretending that forever they can defend them those who dam streams can build fountains those of us who just let them run free can move mountains but i know its time yes i know its time it s time to go home it s time to go home it s time to go home it s time to go home and i say you whoooo you whoooo who who who you whoooo who who who doves fly by in the morning light leaves fall down on a passer by phone call comes and a mamma cries tears stream down from a daddy s eyes but i know its time yes i know its time it s time to go home it s time to go home it s time to go home it s time to go home