First Time

[00:13.30] Remember once I told you about
[00:16.05] How before I heard it from your mouth
[00:19.01] My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound?
[00:25.27] And the soul, if that's what you'd call it
[00:27.91] Uneasy ally of the body
[00:30.66] It felt nameless as a river undiscovered underground
[00:37.18] And the first time that you kissed me
[00:39.59] I drank dry the River Lethe
[00:43.07] The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same
[00:49.10] But you spoke some quick new music
[00:52.23] That went so far to soothe this soul
[00:55.31] As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name
[01:01.41] Some part of me must have died
[01:07.28] The first time that you called me "baby"
[01:13.20] And some part of me came alive
[01:19.25] The first time that you called me "baby"
[01:25.45] These days, I think I owe my life
[01:28.35] To flowers that were left here by my mother
[01:32.65] Ain't that like them, gifting life to you again
[01:37.58] This life lived mostly underground
[01:40.52] Unknowing either sight nor sound
[01:43.32] 'Til reaching up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem
[01:49.03] Sensing only now it's dying
[01:52.08] Drying out, then drowning blindly
[01:55.03] Blooming forth its every colour
[01:58.20] In the moments it has left
[02:00.52] To share the space with simple living things
[02:04.53] Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation
[02:10.58] The absence of itself, anyway
[02:13.57] Some part of me must have died
[02:19.55] Each time that you called me "baby"
[02:25.39] And some part of me stayed alive
[02:31.53] Each time that you called, each time that you called
[02:37.07] Come here
[02:37.86] Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la
[02:42.95] Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
[02:49.63] Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la
[02:54.95] Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
[03:01.44] The last time it was heard out loud
[03:04.00] The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked
[03:08.66] To resignation as the arguing declined
[03:13.57] When I was young, I used to guess
[03:16.41] Are there limits to any emptiness?
[03:19.58] When was the last time?
[03:21.85] Come here to me, when was the last time?
[03:25.51] Some part of me must have died
[03:31.33] The final time you called me "baby"
[03:37.21] But some part of me came alive
[03:43.27] The final time you called me "baby"
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