First Time
[00:13.93] Remember once I told you about
[00:16.32] How before I heard it from your mouth
[00:19.24] My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound
[00:25.35] And the soul, if that's what you'd call it
[00:28.27] Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river
[00:34.38] Undiscovered underground
[00:37.30] And the first time that you kissed me
[00:40.23] I drank dry the River Lethe
[00:43.42] The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same
[00:49.26] But you spoke some quick new music
[00:52.44] That went so far to soothe this soul
[00:55.37] As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name
[01:01.21] Some part of me must have died
[01:07.32] The first time that you called me, "Baby"
[01:13.44] And some part of me came alive
[01:19.27] The first time that you called me, "Baby"
[01:25.38] These days I think I owe my life
[01:28.30] To flowers that were left here by my mother
[01:32.28] Ain't that like them, giftin' life to you again
[01:38.13] This life lived mostly underground
[01:40.26] Unknowin' either sight nor sound
[01:43.44] 'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem
[01:49.29] Sensing only now it's dyin'
[01:52.21] Drying out, then drowning blindly
[01:55.40] Bloomin' forth its every colour
[01:58.32] In the moments it has left
[02:01.24] To share the space with simple living things
[02:04.43] Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation
[02:10.00] The absence of itself, anyway
[02:13.45] Some part of me must have died
[02:19.30] Each time that you called me, "Baby"
[02:25.41] But some part of me stayed alive
[02:31.25] Each time that you called, each time that you called
[02:38.70] Come here
[02:41.35] Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la
[02:43.47] Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
[02:50.11] Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la
[02:55.43] Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
[03:02.07] The last time it was heard out loud
[03:04.46] The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked
[03:08.71] To resignation as the arguing declined
[03:13.22] When I was young I used to guess
[03:16.41] Are there limits to any emptiness?
[03:19.60] When was the last time
[03:22.26] Come here to me, when was the last time?
[03:25.45] Some part of me must have died
[03:31.29] The final time that you called me, "Baby"
[03:37.39] But some part of me came alive
[03:43.24] The final time you called me, "Baby"
