Time moves on: for the bride
    The music started, she walked the aisle
  The vows, the kiss, dance for a while
The cake and the gifts stacked in a pile
Then suddenly, her wedding was o'er
Looking back, she tries to remember something
  Besides simply the rush and frenzy and things
   Why couldn't she have slowed and watched closer before?

Time moves on: for the mother
   She knew that today will be wild
  Her young baby boy, her first child,
Turned one upon this day. She smiled.
She had a long list of chores to get out of the way
She could not pause to watch him have fun
  There was too much to be done
   Too much to do, to think, and to say

Time moves on: for the widow
  Their family and friends filled past in a line
“How are you?” “Oh, I'll be fine”
“Thank you for coming, you are just too kind.”
Her husband of years had died, now she was the last
  She watched as the casket was buried
   The years had flown: She had just been married!
    Just married: years and years had flown past.

   Now, she lays in the hospital bed
  She has not long to live, they had said
Her life is relived, here in her head
The years had slipped past, in a whirlwind, a blur
Oh, when she was a child, naïve, loving fun
  When she was a mother, so much to be done
   She misses those years now; they mean so much to her.
Time moves on, life moves on.