First Time

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Remember once I told you about 
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How before I heard it from your mouth 
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My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound 
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And the soul, if that's what you'd call it 
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Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river 
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Undiscovered underground 


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And the first time that you kissed me 
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I drank dry the River Lithe 
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The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same 
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But you spoke some quick new music 
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That went so far to soothe this soul 
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As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name 



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Some part of me must have died 
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The first time that you called me, "Baby" 
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And some part of me came alive 
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The first time that you called me, "Baby" 


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These days I think I owe my life 
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To flowers that were left here by my mother 
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Ain't that like them, giftin' life to you again 
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This life lived mostly underground 
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Unknowin' either sight nor sound 
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'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem 
 

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Sensing only now it's dyin' 
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Drying out, then drowning blindly 
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Bloomin' forth its every colour 
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In the moments it has left 
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To share the space with simple living things 
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Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation 
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The absence of itself, anyway 

 

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Some part of me must have died 
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Each time that you called me, "Baby" 
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But some part of me stayed alive 
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Each time that you called, each time that you called 
 

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Come here 
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Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la 
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Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around 
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Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la 
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Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around 

 

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The last time it was heard out loud 
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The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked 
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To resignation as the arguing declined 
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When I was young I used to guess 
           D#m7 
Are there limits to any emptiness? 
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When was the last time 
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Come here to me, when was the last time? 
 

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Some part of me must have died 
     C#               G#          F# 
The final time you called me, "Baby" 
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But some part of me came alive 
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The final time you called me, "Baby"